The inevitable outcome is fiscal disaster and irreparable damage to long term development, growth and welfare plans.
Sometimes, people find dark humour even when the...
How exactly do you negotiate with someone who repeatedly and stubbornly sticks to his intention of exterminating you?
There are some moments and events in...
Rahul Gandhi’s publicly adopted stance on issues like freebies, welfare schemes, reservations and even pensions should worry analysts.
The only constant is change. And make...
Vote shares of the major parties clearly suggest another hung Assembly. To add to the ‘confusion’, there are a host of smaller regional parties.
Assembly...
The alacrity with which the Hindu community is deemed majoritarian and thuggish when a Muslim is lynched completely disappears when a Hindu is lynched...
A very unhealthy and dysfunctional democracy in the United States, unfortunately, has repercussions across the world.
Democracy can be a funny thing; it has numerous...
It is imperative for India to replicate the spectacular success in mobile phone handset manufacturing and more modest success in automobile manufacturing.
In the previous...
Before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections verdict, a swarm of echo-chamber entitled analysts, commentators and pundits went red in the face, chanting ad nauseam...
Scores of inheritors in sports, cinema and corporate India have failed despite having all the initial advantages. The natural question is why doesn’t the...
The challenges that it faces even now despite the wonderful (in relative terms) performance of 2024 remain very formidable.
Euphoria is but natural when you...
The numerous think-tanks that routinely place India at near bottom in democracy and media freedom rankings haven’t uttered a word about how this trial...
The relative stagnation and decline of the three states of West Bengal, Punjab and Maharashtra is a lesson for students of politics and governance.
The...
The brutal and uncomfortable fact based on historical data is: voters ignore corruption when they like a leader.
Depending on which side of the ideological...
The woke-liberal dream of eventually shaping the entire world to suit their totalitarian and often Marxist worldview has been rudely disrupted by Elon Musk.
India...
Starting from Narendra Modi at the national level, Indian politics is more and more about personality cults.
The first phase of voting is already over...
India, despite being the second most populous country in the world (now most populous) has completely missed the mass industrialisation bus.
CVoter has been tracking...
There really haven’t been too many instances where corruption as an issue has affected an electoral outcome.
The co-author has been travelling across India for...
For India, the Pakistan economy is so insignificant and irrelevant that hardly anyone will notice if there is no trade between them.
That distressingly familiar...
Before commenting on the myriad flaws in Indian democracy, western commentators would do better to focus on how American democracy is becoming a joke...
The delicious dreams of Opposition leaders seem perilously close to being shattered.
In June 2023, there was a sense of anticipation bordering euphoria. There was...
You will surely live to fight another day if you focus hard on your own states and their voters. Going ‘national’ and ‘international’ between now and April 2024 could mean catastrophe in your own home turf.
What is shocking is the behaviour and utterances of Congress leaders like Karti Chidambaram and Priyank Kharge, who de facto supported the lunacy of...
By showing no sympathy for Israeli women, elderly and children slaughtered by Hamas terrorists and openly supporting the Palestinian ‘cause’, the Congress could have...
In politics, like in cricket and life, almost anything is possible. Congress fans watching the World Cup match between Netherlands and South Africa (not...
A recent pan-India survey conducted by CVoter reveals both pragmatism and hard nationalism amongst Indians across the ideological spectrum.
Cvoter conducts surveys related to political,...
