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The Election Diaries 2011: West Bengal, Day one: ‘Didi” the Poetician
The land in Singur is green and prosperous for miles and miles, the air clean and clear, the villages looking like any other in Bengal. Yet this is the place where the battle for India’s economic...
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A winning strategy for the North East
On May 13, the Congress Party was re-elected in Assam for the third time. But this win is the most promising of all: the party will inherit, for the first time in three decades, an Assam at relative...
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The injustice of our anti-poor schemes
The expansion of poverty programmes in India has been spearheaded by Sonia Gandhi and her National Advisory Council (NAC). She cannot ignore the fact that by expanding old-fashioned anti-poverty...
View ArticleA corridor for North-East’s prosperity
In May this year, the Congress party won its third straight victory at the hustings in Assam. By itself, the event is liable to be dismissed as another victory in a far-away state. But this win has a...
View ArticleHow India Stumbled
When the United Progressive Alliance, a group of center-left parties led by the Indian National Congress, came to power for a second term in 2009, it seemed that India could do no wrong. The economy...
View ArticleCoal scandal tests India’s democracy
It’s not easy to defend India’s democratic structure and economic policy-making these days. The latest gridlock in parliament over the national auditor’s estimation of a potential loss of $33bn in...
View ArticleCoal scandal tests India’s democracy
It’s not easy to defend India’s democratic structure and economic policy-making these days. The latest gridlock in the Parliament over the national auditor’s estimation of a potential loss of $33...
View Article‘Coalgate’ blackens Indian leaders
India is in the midst of an intense political slugfest, fanned by a raging scandal dubbed the ‘Coalgate’ by the media. Many independent analysts believe the scandal, which centres around a coal...
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The importance of Gujarat
Narendra Modi has been re-elected as the Chief Minister of Gujarat, giving him an unprecedented fourth term in office. With 115 of the 182 seats in the Gujarat Legislature, Modi will be able to...
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