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The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst
    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)Opinion
    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.

    4 Dec 2023 12:01 AM IST

    Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan (PTI File Photo)Opinion
    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 11:38 PM IST

    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)Opinion
    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

    16 Nov 2023 12:00 AM IST

    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)Opinion
    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...

    8 Nov 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Where the Madness Lies. (Image: DC)Books
    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

    22 Oct 2023 12:00 AM IST

    How the PM, PMO Decide on Finance Ministry AffairsBooks
    How the PM, PMO Decide on Finance Ministry Affairs

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

    15 Oct 2023 2:29 AM IST

    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)Opinion
    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.

    25 Sept 2023 12:08 AM IST

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

    10 Sept 2023 12:15 AM IST

    Kharge said that India has a total of 366 PSUs employing 9.2 lakh regular employees and 4.98 lakh contractual employees. The Railways employs 12.53 lakh persons and the department of posts 4.18 lakh employees. If all these are sold off, what will be the future of these employees and their families, he asked. DC file photoOpinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Rebooting CWC: Readying Congress for...

    It will be wildly speculative to say whether Mr Kharge can lead Congress back to power in the 2024 Lok Sabha election?

    24 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Cover photo of How Prime Ministers Decide, by Neerja Chowdhury. (Photo by arrangement)Books
    Book Review | Secrets & surprises: Oral testimonies of India's...

    What Chowdhury unfolds is an engrossing narrative of event, turns out to be a political thriller.

    20 Aug 2023 12:15 AM IST

    Red Fort decked up for Independence Day. (PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India's mood conservative after 76 years...

    The question arises about what happens to the sense of freedom when Indian society is turning conservative.

    15 Aug 2023 12:01 AM IST

    The violence spreads out of Nuh, into Sona, Palwal and Gurgaon. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Look within, hate now spreading like...

    Mr Modi can never go to the people on basis of his government's economic and political achievements.

    4 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

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