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The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst

Verdicts in TN, Kerala, Assam show political diversity rules

The masterminds behind the one nation, one party slogan should know they cannot hope to win across the entire country

3 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Family members mourn near the body of the deceased after clashes erupted between locals and central forces during the fourth phase of West Bengal Assembly Election in Cooch Behar. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Bengal violence erupted as all leaders...

What India is seeing is a generation of political leaders who are immature, who lack the poise of a leader of a national...

15 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

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...

It is possible that some of the J&K separatists and the Naxalites are fanatical ideologues, but there are many others...

7 April 2021 7:16 AM IST

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...

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

29 March 2021 4:19 AM IST

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,...

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

18 March 2021 4:23 AM IST

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...

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

10 March 2021 7:21 AM IST

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...

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

26 Feb 2021 12:00 AM IST

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...

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

17 Feb 2021 7:18 AM IST

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...

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

2 Feb 2021 7:14 AM IST

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...

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

28 Jan 2021 7:06 AM IST

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...

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

17 Jan 2021 4:06 AM IST

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

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

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

22 Dec 2020 6:56 AM IST