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Political game: Is Sourav Ganguly’s elevation as BCCI president part of the BJP’s design for Bengal?

In 1996, a lanky young left-handed batsman — Sourav Ganguly — announced himself to the cricketing world when he scored a scintillating debut century at Lord’s, the mecca of the sport. Even when he became the captain of the Indian cricket team, he took Indian cricket to new heights by…

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Why Haryana’s Jats are disillusioned with the BJP

October is a time of transition for the Jats in Haryana: the landed community prepares to harvest their crops. The day starts at dawn, with men walking out to the fields and women to hand pumps. Afternoons are reserved for hookah and siesta, evenings are for taking care of their…

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#JadavpurUniversity: What happened on September 19?

Black flags fluttered and slogans reverberated at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University on September 19. It was a protest against the presence of the “Hindutvadi people” on the campus. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, was holding a conference that day and had invited BJP…

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#UnnaoRapeCase: Doctors who examined survivor’s father will be prosecuted if trial throws up evidence, court says

The Delhi court trying the Unnao rape case this week disposed of an application for prosecuting doctors who examined the teenage survivor’s father after he was allegedly assaulted by Uttar Pradesh legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the main accused in the case who has since been suspended by his party, the…

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Want to increase GDP? Buy more Roasted Mashed Aubergine Masala

Last week, the Government released figures of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and it led to a lot of general furor about the state of our economy. While economists, politicians and commentators like to go bananas over this one term, it is quite difficult for a mango person to understand…

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A review of NL Hafta by Arvind, Vikas and Anand

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The Original Lutyens’ Insider

Maurice Nagar chowk in Delhi University doesn’t exactly look like a place that could host a bustling public event. But, it did once — four decades ago. Old timers recall that a huge crowd had gathered here in 1977 when Arun Jaitley was welcomed in a public reception on his…

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#RavidasTemple: Politicians queue up with opinions, but residents call it a ‘matter of faith’

The demolition of the Saint Guru Ravidas Temple in New Delhi has created a stir over the last 10 days. A bandh was held in Punjab last week and exams were postponed in the state as protests boiled against the demolition of the temple in Tughlaqabad Extension by the Delhi…

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Meghalaya Police goes after Northeast Now to remove a news report and divulge sources

The Meghalaya Police has been caught on the wrong foot for trying to train its guns on the media. On August 13, it launched an attack on the media by serving a notice to Northeast Now, a Guwahati-based news portal, to remove a news report related to former state chief…

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#Phase3: Voting begins in 117 seats across 13 states and 2 UTs

One hundred and seventeen Lok Sabha seats across 13 states and two Union Territories are going to polls in the third phase of the 2019 General Elections. In the first two phases, polling was held to 91 and 95 seats on April 11 and April 18.

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Why Facebook’s recent purge is problematic to the core

Facebook just did a Thanos-esque move on April 1st, snapped its fingers, and deleted a bunch of pages and accounts that were either engaging in ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ or ‘civic spam’. These removals were specifically targeted to India and Pakistan.

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A review of NL Hafta by Arvind and Rahul

Here’s a quick feedback on Hafta 188: Hartosh Singh Bal comes across as rude and nasty

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Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan wants to take the fight to Delhi

The celebration in Saharanpur’s Chhutmalpur has just begun. The man of the moment is Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’, who is out on bail.

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Why must the BJP government repeat the worst behaviour of previous governments?

Read Part 1 on how the Modi government systematically made Parliament irrelevant. And then Part 2 on how the Modi government has started an era of Ordinance Raj and avoided proving its legitimacy in Parliament.

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Does the Modi government have the legitimacy to run the government anymore?

Read the first part of how the Modi Government systematically made Parliament irrelevant here.

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How the Modi Government systematically made Parliament irrelevant

It was May 20, 2014. The Bharatiya Janata Party having won 282 seats in Lok Sabha, Narendra Damodardas Modi was unequivocally elected as the Prime Minister of India. He got out of a vehicle at the main entrance of Parliament and got down on his knees to touch his head…

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How the AAP-LG tussle is uniting the Opposition against the BJP

The tremors of a political earthquake in the national capital are spreading fast across the country. The support to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s dharna at the Lieutenant Governor’s house from the Opposition parties or the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party front is swelling with every passing day.

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Why BJP’s ‘Saaf Niyat, Sahi Vikas’ is an example of bad branding

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Why granting statehood to Delhi is the right thing to do

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Bharatiya Janata Party’s GDP Jumla

The latest set of gross domestic product (GDP) numbers were released yesterday.

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Chandrababu Naidu’s saga of political flip-flops

Nara Chandrababu Naidu, supremo of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has done it again. His political heel is flexible enough that it can rotate 360 degrees. His political ideology is malleable and ductile. It takes the shape of the container, at his will.

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#Cobrapost sting and Hindutva in the newsroom

The lines between editorial and marketing departments are more blurred than media organisations would like to acknowledge. This has been well established by documentation of paid news cases. The Cobrapost sting reinforces the fact that media’s business model is advertisement-centric.

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Voters in Kairana don’t care about Jinnah’s portrait: RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary

The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) is fighting a battle of survival in Uttar Pradesh, and Monday’s Kairana bypoll seems its best shot to stay on the political scene ahead of the 2019 general elections.

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Kumaraswamy swearing-in and battle of the Telugu biddas

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leadership has reason to be chuffed after making its presence felt at HD Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in ceremony in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

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Pollution versus politics in the uneasy town of #Thoothukudi

Even as governments, courts, lawyers, political parties and residents’ associations are grappling over the levels of pollution caused by Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi (Tuticorin), a coastal town of southern Tamil Nadu, 13 lives have been lost in police firings in the last two days here in a bid…

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