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The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst

There is a reason that Prime Minister Modi has been emphasising the tourism sector centred around the pilgrimage centres of Ujjain, Varanasi and Ayodhya, because all the efforts to make India the pharmaceutical hub, or the manufacturing hub, of the world had just fizzled out in the past 10 years. (File Image: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Is economy in a feel-good psychedelic...

The Indian economy is turning out to be like the American one in many ways

24 Jan 2024 6:30 PM GMT

Saffron flags bearing images of Lord Ram, Lord Hanuman and the upcoming grand temple on display in front of shops along Ram Path, in Ayodhya. Ahead of the Ram temple consecration ceremony in the holy city, demand for such flags has risen manifold. (PTI Photo/Kunal_Dutt)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi's Ayodhya overdrive: Will dreams...

It is now a recognisable signature of Prime Minister Modi that he does not believe in anything low key.

14 Jan 2024 6:35 PM GMT

Construction work in progress at Ayodhya Railway Station, on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The lesson from Ayodhya: How power...

The Supreme Court judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Majid case had decided the issue in terms of a property dispute.

26 Dec 2023 6:17 PM GMT

BJP working president JP Nadda delivers a speech on Article 370 in J&K in Thane on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | SC's Art. 370 ruling has left key...

Even Hindu-majority Jammu is not happy with the new UT status

13 Dec 2023 6:30 PM GMT

Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi with BJP National President J.P. Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah during celebrations after partys victory in elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, at BJP headquarters, in New Delhi, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Local factors led to BJP's Hindi belt poll...

The hard reality is that the Modi factor was absent in all the four states.

3 Dec 2023 6:31 PM GMT

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan (PTI File Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The politics of governors: How Centre...

Kerala Guv Arif Khan should have known better than to use the office of governor as an obstacle in functioning of the...

27 Nov 2023 6:08 PM GMT

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Nari Shakti Vandan-Abhinandan Karyakram, a day after Parliament passed the womens reservation bill, at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, on Friday. (Image: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi foreign policy fumble amid...

India's position on the Hamas-Israel confrontation is quite different from that of its stance on the Russia-Ukraine war

15 Nov 2023 6:30 PM GMT

The capital city of Delhi enveloped in smog in New Delhi, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Air pollution level is Delhi-NCR has started rising owing much to stubble (parali) burning in adjoining states. (PTI Photo/Arun Sharma)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Delhi's nightmare: Leaders bicker while...

The Centre wants commercial vehicles which do not cater to essential services to be stopped, & 50 percent of employees...

7 Nov 2023 6:35 PM GMT

Where the Madness Lies. (Image: DC)

Identities that cannot be erased from individuals and communities

Telangana Telugu is the one which is not Sanskritised, and even though it is looked down upon

21 Oct 2023 6:30 PM GMT

How the PM, PMO Decide on Finance Ministry Affairs

How the PM, PMO Decide on Finance Ministry Affairs

As a bureaucrat, Subhash Chandra Garg adopts the view of the government

14 Oct 2023 8:59 PM GMT

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment & India-Middle East-Europe Economics Corridor event during the G20 Summit 2023, in New Delhi, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi, BJP looking for the elusive big...

There is intense dissatisfaction with how people's lives are panning out, which has not yet assumed the form of anger.

24 Sep 2023 6:38 PM GMT

DMK youth wing secretary and Tamil Nadu Youth Welfare Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Bharat vs India: Don't create new fault...

Politicians, unlike poets, have a diabolical plan when they create the web of words.

9 Sep 2023 6:45 PM GMT