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What Makes Rahul Gandhi Tick Despite All Odds
When you have reached the bottom, the only way you can go is up. That just about sums up the political prospect of the latest Nehru-Gandhi scion, Rahu...
By VVP Sharma
Ballot Trail in Gujarat but Bullet Train is Indian
Nineteen years after Japan was devastated by Little Boy and Fat Man, the country was back in the mainstream of world affairs. It was 1964. The Olympic...
By VVP Sharma
Is Time Ripe for a Social Media Rulebook for Politicians?
The debate during the week on the Prime Minister following some people on Twitter who used abusive language after journalist Gauri Lankesh’s death h...
Will Bimal Gurung End Up Like His Mentor Subhash Ghisingh?
Gurung, the chief of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, the party leading the fight for a separate Gorkhaland state in Darjeeling hills, has been literally smoke...
Bittery and Buttery: BJP’s AIADMK Conundrum
The BJP would have loved nothing more than for the AIADMK to join the NDA just in time for the intended reshuffle of the Union council of ministers. A...
By VVP Sharma
Marital Rape: End the Denial
Is it marital rape when a husband is in the mood for sex and the wife says, ‘Not tonight, darling’ but they still end up having sex? Is it marital...
How Two Governments Failed to Deliver on Right to Privacy
Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday hailed the Supreme Court verdict making privacy a fundamental right. He read out a statement at a televised ...
By VVP Sharma
Triple Talaq Paves Way for Uniform Civil Code?
What is next in the Triple Talaq saga? The logical question is will the government move towards the Uniform Civil Code. In October, 2016, on the b...
By VVP Sharma
Getting Rid of Sasikala Not as Easy as Merger
Did you notice one thing? The OPS and EPS factions of the AIADMK "merged" this afternoon, but it was a cool affair. The usual Tamil exuberance that go...
By VVP Sharma
Can Infosys and Tatas Get Over The Old vs New Row? Hope So
Over the seventy years since India got Independence, two companies have come to be regarded as poster boys for corporate governance practices, ethics ...
Hoisting Tricolour, Bhagwat Settles RSS' Flag Dilemma?
Better late than never. RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Madhukar Bhagwat hoisted the national tricolor in a Kerala school today, the 15th of August. But the ...
By VVP Sharma
La Affaire Gulalai!
As if Panamagate charade and disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office since he was not honest and trustworthy as pro...
Procedure and Politics: Nitish Gets One Right, Answerable For The Other
The Patna high court has dismissed two PILs filed by the RJD and SP against the Bihar governor not inviting the RJD as the Single Largest Party (SLP)...
By VVP Sharma
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