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

Adieu To Fiats of High Commands

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"The fiats of the 'high command', ideological posturing, coterie deliberations and too-clever-by-half electoral calculations - all of them manifestation of the 'commanding heights' approach to politics - are well and truly a thing of the past."

-The Times of India, March 10, 2012

How The Lotus Can Bloom

BJP 2.0 must be a vehicle for the politics of aspiration and economic change

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A debate has ensued in the BJP between two ideational models, says the writer. What are these models and how do those models fair in view of the recent outcomes in assembly elections?

A discussion on possible changes, and the results of past and current strategies of the BJP are expressed.

-The Times  of India, March 8, 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

Keeping The Faith

The Election Commission made it easy for voters in UP

Keeping The Faith

-The Times of India, March 6, 2012

It Takes More To Tango

Beware milking caste too much, it might just curdle

It Takes More To Tango

-The Times of India, February 18, 2012

Political parties' poll manifestos talk about distributing free laptops to students

Times View - Superficial promises on education
Counter View - Students need this boost


-The Times of India, February 9, 2012

UP's voter

Seema Mustafa analyses the entire political scenario on ground-based politics and explains the strengths and weaknesses of each and every party whch is trying to gain any stake in the state elections 2012...

UP's voter is savouring her moment in the sum

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

Mamata Versus The Rest

Trinamool grapples with imagined adversaries instead of focussing on governing Bengal


Mamata Versus The Rest

-The Times of India, January 17, 2012

For level electoral field, Election Commission orders draping of Mayawati's statues

Times View - Consistent - and correct


Counterview - A meaningless decision


-The Times of India, January 10, 2012