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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr

Security personnel pay tribute to CRPF jawan Shambhu Roy, who died in a gun battle with Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh, during his funeral ceremony at Dharmanagar in North Tripura district on April 6, 2021. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Need to rethink strategy to tackle Maoist menace

It is possible that some of the J&K separatists and the Naxalites are fanatical ideologues, but there are many others who are not

07 Apr 2021 7:16 AM

A new generation of RSS and BJP leaders are not inclined to update the Hindutva ideology because their basic presumption of glorifying a dead national past is their basic principle. (Photo:PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hosabale’s rise: RSS-BJP ties still remain opaque

If the BJP survives in power, it may not need the RSS much longer

29 Mar 2021 4:19 AM

Indians who complain loudly and aggressively against the offensive behaviour of white people in the West fall into the same kind of behaviour at home when we deal with blacks and all non-white people – whether they are visitors or students. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Let’s talk about racism… Fight it at home, abroad

Discrimination based on colour is a habit of the mind among people across the length and breadth of Indian society

18 Mar 2021 4:23 AM

The focus of the Assembly elections in four states and a Union territory has centred around West Bengal and the big question is whether the BJP under PM Modi will breach the final barrier, as it were, for the right-wing saffron party. (AP/Bikas Das)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi’s pan-Indian image won’t help BJP win polls

The right-wing party is learning the hard way that multitudinous India is a multipolar political field

10 Mar 2021 7:21 AM

Climate activist Disha Ravi, 22, being taken to a court in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Ravi was arrested for circulating a document on social media supporting months of massive protests by farmers in India. (AP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Arrests on flimsy basis undermine democracy

A citizen’s liberty cannot be left to the mercy of a policeman or policewoman

26 Feb 2021 12:00 AM

The honest way of going about this important issue dealing with the challenges of agriculture is to tell the truth that the government is unable to pay the rising MSP bill. (PTI/Kamal Kishore)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | PM’s arguments on farm laws seem deeply flawed

The government is now telling a lie -- that farmers will get a better deal outside the mandi, which is not the case over the long term

17 Feb 2021 7:18 AM

Ms Sitharaman has announced a huge capital expenditure outlay across sectors from health to infrastructure, and even to the financial sector, by setting up a Developmental Financial Institution with a capitalisation of Rs 20,000 crores. ((Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | State back in saddle; can pvt sector drive growth?

There is the feeling that the economy is at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel, and the post-pandemic turnaround is around the corner

02 Feb 2021 7:14 AM

Security tightened at Red Fort, a day after it was stormed by protesting farmers during their tractor march, in New Delhi, Wednesday, January 27, 2021. (PTI /Kamal Singh)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | As farmers lose ground, government will take tough line

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has kept himself aloof from the issue apart from giving general, vague rhetorical responses

28 Jan 2021 7:06 AM

The Akalis, who have been the major political voice of the Sikhs, have not been in the forefront of the agitation now that they walked out of the government and the NDA on the very same issue. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Why Akali Dal’s voice is missing in farmers’ stir

It is not clear what the equation is between the Akalis and the leaders of the farmers’ unions

17 Jan 2021 4:06 AM

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference at Circuit House, in Patiala. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Congress drifts as real issues are left ignored

Interestingly, neither the Gandhis’ camp nor the dissidents have any clear idea of how to oppose the BJP

22 Dec 2020 6:56 AM

Farmers protest at the Singhu border during their ongoing 'Delhi Chalo' agitation against Centre's new farm laws, in New Delhi on November 30 (PTI/ Shahbaz Khan)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will our farmers force arrogant govt to yield?

The hardnosed men and women of the soil are not going to be overwhelmed by the PM’s rhetoric and sweet talk

01 Dec 2020 9:33 AM

Voters stand in queues to cast their votes at a polling station during the third phase of Bihar Assembly Elections, at Mahua in Vaishali district, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. (PTI Photo)

No real winner in Bihar; Nitish, Tejashwi lose out

The 2020 Bihar Assembly election has ended without any real winners

12 Nov 2020 8:12 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar

Hindutva a stumbling block for BJP in Bihar

There is a political vacuum in Bihar, and there is room for some of the existing players to grab the opportunity and fill it up.

24 Oct 2020 11:40 AM

Students during a protest rally over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly gang-raped two weeks ago in Hathras. PTI Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hathras: Yogi government's offensive misguided

The charges against the protesters include conspiracy, treason and abetting enmity between communities and castes

07 Oct 2020 6:13 PM

Farmers shout slogans as they march to protest against the Union government's agriculture reforms in Amritsar. (AFP)

Parsa | What is PM Modi afraid of?

The prime minister should have used the debate on farm bills to underscore their virtues

24 Sep 2020 9:53 PM

The last active politician who became President before Pranab Mukherjee was Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1992. So it was not an easy going for Pranab. File Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Pranab Da’s politics: Adept at managing power games

Pranab showed that he was capable in dealing with the intricacies of administration without handing over levers of power to the bureaucrats

04 Sep 2020 4:23 PM

Children hold Indian flags as they celebrate Independence Day in Dharavi. AP Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s mood is sombre: Is Modi government out of sync?

Independence Day has also been a grim occasion for many of those who had to leave behind everything they had

15 Aug 2020 5:38 PM

PM Narendra Modi in the Bhoomi Pujan (ANI)

Parsa Venkateshwar | Puja at Ayodhya: Modi’s bid to seal BJP’s future?

He was careful enough to avoid mentioning the other part of the Ayodhya settlement as directed by the SC in its November 2019 ruling

05 Aug 2020 8:26 PM

Mumbai: Jyoti Randhe, a class 10th student of BMC school, studies at her house, at Aarey Colony in Mumbai. AFP Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | NEP is ambitious, but needs more flexibility

To put the ideas of the plan into action, many more institutions have to be set up

01 Aug 2020 4:26 PM

(From left) Sachin Pilot with Ashok Gehlot

Parsa | A failed coup & intolerant CM fuels Raj sarkar crisis

There is room only for one leader, It is the same culture that has been enacted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the BJP

16 Jul 2020 6:57 PM

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