Where's The Change?

A troubled start for SP regime in UP

Where's The Change?

As soon as the Samajwadi Party was declared as the majority party, violence broke out in several areas, and the ones responsible for it, or at least some of them, have been reported allegedly as party's own members. That even a life was lost in a celebratory fire wasn't a good sign of things to come. However, the party needs to take the necessary action to maintain the popular goodwill that has brought it into power in the first place.

-The Times of India, March 22, 2012

Mandate's Message

Promising people a better life won't do, delivering it will


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There are many important lessons to be learnt from the recent outcome of the assembly elections, says the editorial, and the central one may be that identity politics has its limits.

"Youth-driven India's burgeoning popular aspirations should drive home the urgent need for more inclusive growth and accelerated development. The budget is the UPA's chance to show that it not only understands this, but also has the political will to act."

-The Times of India, March 8, 2012

Son Also Rises

By promoting a new campaign culture, Akhilesh Yadav is modernising the SP

Son Also Rises

Akhilesh Yadav, in his UP campaign, has been involved in modernising the earlier culture that had adopted such old rhetoric as those against computers and English. The extensive use of social networking sites in order to woo the young voters "fed up with (the) old-style political rhetoric" has been commonly seen, and can only turn positive for the Samajwadi Party campaign.

-The Times of India, February 7, 2012

Few Fresh Breezes

There's strong anti-incumbency in states, but is opposition taking advantage?

Few Fresh Breezes

-The Times of India, January 31, 2012

Whereas most parties in power in the the five states where elections are in motion have invited an anti-incumbent atmosphere on to the state, the opposition parties have resorted to age-old traditions of caste-and-religion politics to move the voters. The talk on infrastructure, health, education and corruption is sidelined to make way for quota-based politics.

Sun, Sand, Sunburn

Even in Goa, girls don't just want to have fun


Sun, Sand, Sunburn

-The Times of India, January 17, 2012

UP's New Star Caste

The state's political paradigm shifts with Congress and BJP wooing the smaller castes


UP's New Star Caste

-The Times of India, January 16, 2012

Power, Not Principles

Anti-Congressism is the common plank of those motivated by short-term political gain

Power, not principles

-The Times of India, January 10, 2012

Personal Review: An article that traces the history of "anti-congressism" - in the form of political parties, and some other "groups" that have continually rose only to oppose Congress, and not to "get on with their work."