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The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst
    Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar with Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and S.S. Sandhu during announcement of the schedule for General Elections 2024, and elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha, in New Delhi, Saturday, March 16, 2024. Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases beginning from April 19 and results will be announced on June 4. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | ONOE logistics challenge; threat to...

    India's Election Dynamics: Challenges and Implications of -"One Nation, One Election-" Proposal

    20 March 2024 12:05 AM IST

    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao | Modi guarantees: Flurry of projects on eve of pollsOpinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao | Modi guarantees': Flurry of projects on eve...

    Prime Minister's flurry of announcements raises questions about timing, electoral strategy, and governance model

    11 March 2024 12:00 AM IST

    Cover image of Love Jihad and Other FictionsBooks
    Book Review | When the fiction is so gratifying, can journalism be...

    They expose systematically love jiihad, population jihad and Muslim appeasement with facts and figures

    9 March 2024 2:15 PM IST

    Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Congress leader Rajeev Shukla during a meeting, in Shimla, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Cong's slide in Himachal sign of a deeper...

    Cross-voting chaos in Himachal as Congress faces dissent, BJP claims majority, creating a political turmoil

    1 March 2024 2:49 AM IST

    Farmers look for cover after police fired tear gas at them during their Delhi Chalo march, near the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border, in Patiala district, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Farmers protesting at the Punjab-Haryana border resumed their march on Wednesday, days after the fourth round of talks with the government over their demands. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Punjab's farmers the real Opposition to...

    Farmers' demands put Modi government in tight spot

    22 Feb 2024 12:12 AM IST

    In this May 19, 2017 file photo, Prime Minister Narendra Modi with agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan, in New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that Swaminathan would be posthumously conferred the Bharat Ratna. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Limits to BJP's domination? Bharat Ratna...

    BJP's strategic Bharat Ratna awards raise questions about electoral motives, regional impact, and the party's pursuit of...

    14 Feb 2024 9:00 PM IST

    Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. (PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Weak-kneed Nitish Kumar shifts in a...

    Nitish Kumar's return to BJP exposes his reluctance on secularism and socialism, signaling challenges for smaller...

    31 Jan 2024 12:54 AM IST

    His Majestys Headhunters: The Siege of Kohima that Shaped World History. (Image: DC)Books
    Book Review | Untold tales of Naga valour in our Stalingrad of the...

    The narrative explores the treacherous terrain, power struggles, and the strategic contributions of the Nagas

    28 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

    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)Opinion
    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

    25 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

    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)Opinion
    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.

    15 Jan 2024 12:05 AM IST

    Construction work in progress at Ayodhya Railway Station, on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    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 11:47 PM IST

    BJP working president JP Nadda delivers a speech on Article 370 in J&K in Thane on Monday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | SC's Art. 370 ruling has left key...

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

    14 Dec 2023 12:00 AM IST

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