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The writer is a senior journalist in Kolkata.

Mamata Banerjee (Photo: PTI)

Pluralist vs polarised grassroots democracy

Citizenship as a basic identity has had the effect of bringing the politics down to earth.

21 Jan 2020 4:37 AM IST

The Congress Party on Saturday postponed its rally, on the economic slowdown scheduled for December 1, citing the increased security measures in view of the Ayodhya verdict. (Representational Image | PTI)

Decision time for Cong: Can it lead from front?

This is not a political impasse that can be negotiated through complicated calculations of advantage and profit.

8 Jan 2020 2:16 AM IST

Members of Aasu protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, in Guwahati on Wednesday.(Photo: AP)

Govt's desperate hurry on CAB seems puzzling

The protesters and the posters in the Northeast, including Assam, are angry and upset by illegal migrants .

9 Dec 2019 12:38 AM IST

Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari with newly-appointed Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis and his deputy Ajit Pawar in Mumbai on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Playing fast, going slow: Politicians & apex court

The BJP can trade all the horses it wants, but it cannot put back together again the broken bits of its claim to being a...

26 Nov 2019 12:13 AM IST

Top of the list of legislation in the Winter Session will be further changes to the essential structure of the Indian State.

Momentum of inertia, govt remains in denial

The hectic legislative schedule of the BJP on establishing a proto Hindu rashtra with lawful approval masks a curious...

18 Nov 2019 1:58 AM IST

Onions may not be a staple , at less than one per cent of Indias total food production, or about 800 grams a month per person per month on average, but the bulb is not inessential.

Food power in politics: Onions make you cry

The old-fashioned, down to earth politicians of the present generation are wary about the sentiments of food; prices,...

12 Nov 2019 2:49 AM IST

Incumbent Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar being offered sweets by Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad after he was elected as the leader of BJP Legislature party in Chandigarh. (Photo: PTI)

Maha, Haryana signals: Lesson of half-full glass

If the BJP really meant to do what it had declared one nation, one vote the best time to get started would have been...

29 Oct 2019 12:09 AM IST

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee

BJP plays puja politics, tramples on tradition

The tradition in West Bengal is that in the festival season there is no politics.

7 Oct 2019 2:17 AM IST

Replying to a debate on the amendment, Home Minister Amit Shah said a four-level scrutiny has been provided in the amendment and no human rights will be violated. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

How will one card solve any of India's problems?

The BJP may have been right when it laid down the law one man-one post.

27 Sept 2019 1:46 AM IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

As BJP flounders, is the best still to come?

Consider that Bangladesh started out as a devastated nation when it fought and parted company with Pakistan.

11 Sept 2019 1:37 AM IST

The National Register of Citizenship phenomena, therefore, looks different, smells different and feels different.

Who is a citizen? Going down a dangerous path

The publication of the list of citizens on August 31 was the day when India arrived at the crossroads.

5 Sept 2019 12:53 AM IST

Kannan Gopinathan

What citizenship means: IAS man's wake-up call

It is significant that Mr Gopinathan has not opposed the decision to abrogate Article 370 and Article 35A.

29 Aug 2019 12:05 AM IST