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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
About the AuthorNilanjan Mukhopadhyay
The writer is an author and journalist based in Delhi-NCR. His latest book is 'The Demolition and the Verdict: Ayodhya and the Project to Reconfigure India', and he�??s also the author of 'Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times'. He tweets at @NilanjanUdwin.
    Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi AdityanathOpinion
    The politics of renaming

    Although the politics of renaming has acquired greater public attention since 2014, the plan is part of the saffron...

    20 Oct 2018 1:21 AM IST

    BSP supremo Mayawati. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Maya jolt to Opposition unity: Is BJP glee premature?

    Among the three states, the Congress has the least of problems in Rajasthan because the party unit is working more...

    5 Oct 2018 12:59 AM IST

    RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat speaks at an event, titled Future of Bharat: An RSS perspective , at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Why RSS is reaching out to Middle India

    There are two prisms through which one can view the RSS' most concerted bid at public relations.

    21 Sept 2018 12:20 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Rahul must speak more on aam aadmi issues

    The mass quotient and canniness of Gandhi's electoral campaign has to increase.

    7 Sept 2018 7:07 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the World Bio-Fuel Day 2018 function in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Opposition yet to offer an alternative vision

    Significantly, the polls mention economic anxieties†as the principal cause for people's sentiments turning against...

    24 Aug 2018 5:46 AM IST

    Late DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi.Opinion
    DMK's key test to live up to Karuna's legacy

    There are two prisms through which we must look at the passing of Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the DMK patriarch, which was...

    10 Aug 2018 12:47 AM IST

    (From left) Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati, Mamata Banerjee, Rahul Gandhi, N. Chandrababu Naidu and newly-sworn-in Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy in Bengaluru on May 23 PTIOpinion
    Rahul, Maya, Mamata: Pre-2019 dance begins

    Rahul Gandhi said that the Congress was willing to back anyone as Prime Minister provided the person was not supported...

    28 July 2018 2:39 AM IST

    President Ram Nath Kovind has approved imposition of Governors rule in Jammu and Kashmir with immediate effect. (Photo: File | PTI)Opinion
    BJP plots mischief in J&K, India to be hurt

    The plan to install a BJP chief minister will accomplish the party's Mission 44-Plus but through the backdoor.

    13 July 2018 2:08 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he speaks during a plenary session on the occasion of World Environment Day in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Modi & Indira: Such a lot of common traits

    The choices confirmed what many believed that Mr Modi's persona bore a striking resemblance to Indira Gandhi's.

    29 Jun 2018 6:39 AM IST

    Former President Pranab Mukherjee is welcomed by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at the closing ceremony of Tritiya Varsha Sangh Shiksha Vargâ€, an RSS event to mark the conclusion of a three-year training camp for swayamsevaks in Nagpur. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    RSS is still searching for greater legitimacy

    Mohan Bhagwat's condemnation has been ambivalent due to compulsions of realpolitik.

    15 Jun 2018 3:43 AM IST

    Talking about the Operation Bluestar in Golden Temple in 1984, former president Pranab Mukherjee said Indira Gandhi had never compromised with blind religious faiths or with the social force which was at work to split the country into different parts. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Will Pranab tell RSS a few home truths?

    No former President has accepted an invitation to address such a batch of ideologically-committed activists.

    1 Jun 2018 12:44 AM IST

    Karnataka Government formation: B S Yeddyurappa takes oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)Opinion
    In Karnataka, see the birth of a shamocracy

    The BJP and its ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is little but a breeding ground of autocrats...

    18 May 2018 12:22 AM IST

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