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Less than seven days after the results of the 17th Lok Sabha elections came out handing PM Narendra Modi a handsome victory at the hustings and enabling him to embark on a second term as the head of the Union Government, he and his (...)
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Modi Government Takes Charge
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Narendra Modi’s Landslide: Bad for India’s Soul - Text of The Guardian’s Editorial of May 23, 2019
1 June 2019The world does not need another national populist leader who pursues a pro-business agenda while trading in fake news and treating minorities as second-class citizens.
The biggest election in history has just been won by one man: Narendra Modi. (...) -
West Bengal Outcome: The Hard Truth - It’s Pointless to Blame Mamata
1 June 2019by Samyak Ghosh
Prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi wants you to believe that the biggest story in the general election of 2019 is ‘inclusiveness’. While following the election result trends from the Press Club of India in New Delhi, I (...) -
An Elegy for Democracy
1 June 201923.05.2019 will be remembered as a black day.
It was the day democracy in India was gagged to death.
In line with a new bhakti
A demagogue became god and dictatorship was reinstated.
In a country that boasted of unity in diversity
Hate came to (...) -
The Congress at a Critical Juncture
1 June 2019, by Barun Das GuptaThe humiliating defeat the Congress suffered in the latest Lok Sabha elections has faced it with an existential crisis. The truth is that as a parliamentary party trying to come to power through elections, it stands nowhere before the combined (...) -
Indian elections: It wasn’t the economy, stupid!
1 June 2019by L.K. Sharma
Narendra Modi’s stunning victory in the parliamentary elections speaks volumes about the transformed India and an India keen to be transformed further. He defied the incumbency handicap to be crowned as India’s Prime Minister for (...) -
The new “New India”: How New it will Be
1 June 2019, by Badri RainaMany literate and not so literate men and women of my generation grew up with stipulations about a “New India” that derived from the ideals of the freedom movement.
As is well-known, those ideals came then to be codified in the provisions of the (...) -
Why Kerala balked the Modi Wave
1 June 2019, by M K BhadrakumarThrough the looking glass of a staunchly ‘secular-minded’ Malayali—a dirty word in the current idiom when triumphalist cultural nationalism is on the march—the Indian election results evoke mixed feelings.
On the one hand, there is the wave of (...) -
Mandate and After
1 June 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
In the wake of PM Narendra Modi’s tremendous success at the hustings by securing a second term in office, it is worthwhile reading the following lines written after Rajiv Gandhi’s massive electoral victory recorded in an (...) -
Necessary evils, too, are evil in game-changer election
1 June 2019, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Everyone knows that this election is a game- changer. It is becoming clear that it is a convention-breaker as well. Things that were a no-no in electioneering are now accepted norms. Things to which T.N. Seshan said “out” are now “in”. (...)
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