BJP, RSS start preparing for Delhi elections

RSS supports BJP’s campaign, focusing on corruption,...

BJP appoints central observers for Maharashtra legislature party

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has...

FM urges regional rural banks to onboard customers to digital services

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman...

Yashwant Deshmukh & Sutanu Guru

Freebies will derail the India story

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...

What exactly can Israel do?

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...

A new animal farm in England

England the great power is now in decline. It is still incredibly rich in per capita income status. But a substantial proportion of citizens...

The problem in Indian Judiciary needs a Solution

The fact is: there are more than 50 million cases pending in Indian courts, many pending for more than three or four decades. Three recent...

The Perilous Promise of Rahul Gandhi

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...

What could a hung Assembly in J&K lead to?

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...

Terminal decline of Bengal has been hastened by the ‘Bhadralok’

Which investor would be crazy enough to set up shop in a place ruled by extortionists and political thugs ruling the streets? Amidst all...

The intolerable perfidy of Indian ‘liberals’

The alacrity with which the Hindu community is deemed majoritarian and thuggish when a Muslim is lynched completely disappears when a Hindu is lynched...

Whither democracy in the US?

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...

Budget needs to focus on livelihood and manufacturing

The two big reforms that have not been implemented by any government since the historic reforms of 1991 are: agriculture and labour reforms. In the...

The unfinished reforms saga

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...

Coalition or not, reforms are key

What Modi 3.0 needs to do is offer well targeted freebies meant exclusively for the poor but pursue serious economic reforms. More than a month...

Can Congress overtake the BJP in 2029?

What the Congress needs to really focus on is the rebuilding of the grassroots base in the major states where it has faded into...

Who exactly is stifling freedom of speech and media?

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...

The ‘mystery’ of thriving political dynasties

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...

Congress needs to be wary of another false dawn

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...

Has American democracy become a farce?

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...

Three States: One dilemma

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...

Is corruption really an issue in Indian elections?

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 mountain that the Congress has to climb

The Congress managed a 1.4% vote share in Andhra Pradesh in 2019. How does one recover from that kind of debacle? When campaigning for elections...

The Importance of Elon Musk

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...

Politics is all about personality and perceived performance

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...

Why unemployment will be a big issue even in 2029 & 2034

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...

Is corruption an issue that really concerns voters?

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...

Magnanimity with Pakistan is bad policy

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...

You really think democracy is safer in Canada than in India?

So remarkable is the fine print in Canada’s new law that Stalin and Mao would have been proud sponsors of such a law. The annual...

Is BJP cobbling up a 1999-style NDA?

In Karnataka, the BJP now has a formal and formidable alliance with the JD(S). In Bihar, the INDI Alliance had a major advantage as...

Congress as West Indies, BJP as Australia

There seemed to be an air of inevitability as the co-author met scribes and locals in Shimla, Bilaspur and other places in Himachal Pradesh...

AAP, SP, Congress and some Déjà Vu

A strong opposition that can keep the government on its toes is always good for the health of a democracy. But then, hopes and...

Sandeshkhali and power

Trends are a long-term phenomenon. Even in West Bengal, the clear trend is that Hindu voters have started voting as ‘Hindus’. The co-author has a...

Should India bother about Elections in Pakistan?

Indians don’t seem to care at all about what is happening with the elections in Pakistan. By the time you read this, national “elections” in...

American Democracy is becoming a Joke

Before commenting on the myriad flaws in Indian democracy, western commentators would do better to focus on how American democracy is becoming a joke...

Is this the end of I.N.D.I. Alliance?

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...

How Mayawati has made it easier for PM Modi

She and Jatav Dalits will almost certainly ensure the BSP gets a 10% vote share in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha elections. There is...

Does political stability matter? Bengal and Odisha reveal contrasting outcomes

Both states have seen very high levels of political stability. Yet, why has Odisha been such a near miracle in reducing poverty and improving...

A tale of two ‘start-ups’

Both Arvind Kejriwal and Byju Raveendran can have a future. They will need to reinvent. For a decade or so, the two were feted, applauded...

Can I.N.D.I.A bring BJP below 250 seats?

A recent CVoter opinion poll and other credible data suggest that the mountain might be too steep to climb for the opposition. A dazzling array...

After historians, ‘eminent’ economists join the war for India’s soul

When Sunil Khilnani wrote the “Idea of India” in 1997, it was not just about the country marking 50 years of independence from British...

The message from Telangana for I.N.D.I.A partners is brutal

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.

For I.N.D.I.A, is 2024 going, going…gone with gaumutra?

What is shocking is the behaviour and utterances of Congress leaders like Karti Chidambaram and Priyank Kharge, who de facto supported the lunacy of...

Pro or anti-incumbency? An electoral riddle

By the evening of 3 December, we will all know whom the voters have chosen in the five states. How many will see pro-incumbency...

Has Sonia Gandhi handed over 2024 to Narendra Modi?

By showing no sympathy for Israeli women, elderly and children slaughtered by Hamas terrorists and openly supporting the Palestinian ‘cause’, the Congress could have...

Congress prospects post 2024 Lok Sabha elections

In politics, like in cricket and life, almost anything is possible. Congress fans watching the World Cup match between Netherlands and South Africa (not...

How a polarised India displays total unanimity on Canada

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,...

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