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Aam Aadmi goes to Party!
It might come as a jolt to prime time TV junkies who like their revolutions outsourced, but there are solid reasons why the newly constituted Aam Aadmi Party is destined to oblivion -and discover that electoral politics is no party! As a fervent advocate of community action, I have witnessed with growing disappointment the … Read more
Hang the Gang – the Rape and the Mob.
The shocking incident of gang rape in India’s capital is what it is but there is another blood thirsty gang of people out there that insist on picking the wrong things to learn from this incident. The headless chicken-ry around the grotesque case of the gang rape in Delhi has reached its nadir. Opinions have … Read more
The vote on FDI- the knaves have it!
The vote on FDI in retail in Parliament only showed us what we always knew – the knaves have it, the knaves have it! By the time it went to vote in the Lok Sabha, it had become clear that the public discourse on the issue of FDI in multi-brand retail was compromised to such … Read more
Old whine, new battles!
First there was the big bang theory, that held that a nation can be distracted from humongous corruption by reform-sounding economic steps. Close on its heels comes the second flanking move – a self congratulatory reshuffle which, bereft of a plausible plan, seems like old wine in new bottles. If the measure of popularity is … Read more
Coalgate: The Promise of a Toothache.
Solid grounds exist to implicate the Prime Minister of India in the bungling in the coal sector while he was Minister. Now, if only we would stop harping on the virtual loss and instead focus on the virtual absence of responsibility and control that the PM exhibited, we might just get the country to see … Read more
It’s the economist, Stupid!
The Indian economy was held up as a beacon of hope in the time that the international crisis began but it looks like we have manufactured our very own crisis. This post argues that the Indian economy’s problems arise out of the Congress’ leadership dichotomy and a fanatical obsession with retaining power – even at the expense … Read more
BJP and the price of difference.
In a season when the fruit should have been ready for the picking, how come everyone, including party members think that the BJP is not perceived as a natural alternative to the Congress? This post proposes that it might have to do with a self-inflicted wound – and asks the party to stop trying to … Read more
A Municipaltry win. And the Congress crumbles.
The BJP wins the municipal polls in Delhi amid a general voter antipathy towards the Congress. But is it becoming a small fish specialist that misses landing the big catch? The reasons are there, if we’d care to turn the light inward. Now that the dust has settled over the municipal tally in Delhi, it … Read more
Aiming low and shooting ourselves in the foot.
A caustic look at what the BJP could have mustered, but could not. And some quick reasons why it did not turn out to script. Additionally, how we settled for the easy targets, failed the real test of UP and mucked up in Uttrakhand. While it may be completely justified for the BJP to take … Read more
