PRIYA SAHGAL, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

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Talk to KCV At a lunch recently hosted by a Congress leader, the talk turned to the coming elections and of course Rahul Gandhi’s plans....

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The Message from Shimla The one immediate lesson the Congress should learn from the Himachal Pradesh fiasco is that it needs a strong organizational and...

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THE FRENCH CONNECTION Shashi Tharoor, the Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, was conferred the Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur” (also known as the Knight of the...

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Will Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contest the Lok Sabha election? After the Congress has distributed its Rajya Sabha seats, the speculation now is whether Priyanka Gandhi...

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The Singer not the Song The Vice President, who is also the Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, threw a dinner for all those MPs whose...

Bharat Ratna: Advani gets a deserved acknowledgment

The Prime Minister and L.K. Advani have a special relationship. L.K. Advani is finally getting the recognition he richly deserves—not so much from the people...

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Why did Nitish quit I.N.D.I.A? Nitish Kumar’s U-turn is indeed perplexing, for in the short term, he hasn’t achieved all that much. He was Bihar...

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Will I.N.D.I.A bloc be more post poll than pre poll? With Nitish Kumar ready to do a U-turn once again (the speculation at the time...

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Politics of Being Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra unhappy with the Congress organisational reshuffle? She was missing from Nagpur when the Congress Working...

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Will elections be brought forward? The buzz in the national capital is that the general elections could be preponed by a few weeks. According to...

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Employment Guarantee for Ex Chief Ministers? Will the Congress ex Chief Ministers contest the Lok Sabha elections? The party leadership is keen that Bhupesh Baghel,...

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What Goes Around, Comes Around This Parliament session will be known more for what happened outside the proceedings than for its routine work. With the...

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The Political Chai Akhilesh Yadav was one of the star attractions at the India News Manch last week. Apart from politics he also commented on...

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The Hunt for ScapegoatsOnce the Assembly results poured in, the hunt for scapegoats started within the Congress. The central leadership blamed the state satraps—from...

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The Best is Yet to Come?The Congress celebrated Mallikarjun Kharge completing 50 years in politics with a high-profile book launch to celebrate the same....

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THE C.P. JOSHI WAYThe state of Rajasthan has clearly not forgotten one important lesson from the last election. That is when C.P. Joshi lost...

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DIWALI MILAN WITH THE PM The BJP held its annual Diwali Milan on Friday, with the Prime Minister addressing the media. He stayed clear from...

Advantage Kamal Nath in battleground Madhya Pradesh

There is a quiet sense of confidence in the Kamal Nath camp. His son Nakul Nath has even predicted that Nath Senior will be...

BJP INFIGHTING IN MADHYA PRADESH

The battle in Madhya Pradesh seems to be not just between the Congress and the BJP but also within various factions of the two...

WHAT IS NITISH KUMAR UP TO?

WHAT IS NITISH KUMAR UP TO?Recently Nitish Kumar created quite a stir within the I.N.D.I.A bloc when he commented that the Congress was too...

BEING SMRITI IRANI

The feisty and very candid Smriti Irani was speaking on the Women’s Reservation Bill at the annual PAFI (Public Affairs Forum of India) conclave...

The shepherd of the hill state

Himachal Chief Minister adds some out-of-the-box initiatives to his governance matrix. The best leadership model is one that leads by example. This is a dictum...

The Ministerial Team Spirit

Last week, Hardeep Puri, Cabinet Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, held a dinner at his residence to honour India’s award-winning sports team that...

A CM at CWC MEET

Which Congress Chief Minister was in the firing line in the recent CWC meeting? Apparently, the said CM has a blow-hot-blow-cold rapport with the...

Shivraj’s name still missing

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s name is missing from the candidates’ lists that have been declared so far. It’s a pretty strange...

BJP going without CM face in states

By now it is clear that the BJP is not going to declare a Chief Minister candidate for the coming Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and...

MANAGING THE NARRATIVE

One thing is sure, the Modi government knows well how to manage the headlines and the narrative. Even before the special session they had...

BOYCOTTING THE MEDIA

THE I.N.D.I.A. combine has come up with a list of anchors that it has put on its boycott list. As it is, the Congress...

The Mysterious Special Session

The mystery around the special session deepens as the Narendra Modi government is still to reveal the reason behind this sudden move. Sonia Gandhi’s...

THE SEPTEMBER SHOCK

The announcement of a midterm session of Parliament has caught everyone by surprise. First the timing. The announcement came at a time when the...

The Maverick Remembers

Mani Shankar Aiyar’s book is making news, some for the right reasons and some for reasons that are uniquely Mani. The book, “Memoirs of...

THE OUT OF SYLLABUS ATTACK

Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi has been getting a lot of accolades, especially on social media for his speech in Parliament during the No Confidence...

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A POLITICAL ROLLER COASTER Award winning journalist and political commentator, Neerja Chowdhury’s book, “How Prime Minister’s Decide” is out this week. The book looks at...

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Past Forward or Present Continuous? The Madhya Pradesh Congress seems to be fighting two battles in the state. One against the BJP and the sitting...

WOWING THE CAPITAL

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, the Union Cabinet Minister for Jal Shakti, was the chief guest at Sunday Guardian Foundation’s “Capital Dialogue” last week. He handled...

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THE PAWAR STORY After being made Deputy Chief Minister in the Eknath Shinde government and taking the Finance portfolio from Devendra Fadnavis, NCP rebel leader...

Being @ShashiTharoor

New Delhi In the age of social media, one way of profiling someone is to follow the digital breadcrumbs. Having said that, Shashi Tharoor’s...

WHAT DID SHARAD PAWAR KNOW?

There is much speculation as to whether Sharad Pawar knew of his nephew’s rebellion and if it was all stage-managed, or was he actually...

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Cabinet Reshuffle this week?Delhi’s power corridors are abuzz with rumours of a possible reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers. While only the Prime...

Some Food Filled Fun Facts

It was an evening dedicated to the celebration of food with all its richness and diversity. The launch of “The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indian...

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1. AIR INDIA AND ITS DIRTY LAVATORIES Clearly, the Tatas are still to imprint their famed brand of hospitality on Air India. An economy class...

Air India and its Dirty Lavatories

Clearly, the Tatas are still to imprint their famed brand of hospitality on Air India. An economy class passenger traveling on the Delhi-Lucknow flight...

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All is Not Well The Pilot vs Gehlot feud has an interesting offshoot in Delhi, with the old guard supporting Ashok Gehlot and advocating that...

Cool Breeze :A CAPITAL DIALOGUE INDEED

Hardeep Singh Puri, the very urbane Union Minister for Urban Affairs (and Petroleum) was recently the chief guest at the Capital Dialogue (an interactive...

Cool Breeze: The quiet but efficient engine

The quiet but efficient engine Ashwani Vaishnaw, the low profile Cabinet Minister for Railways, Electronics and Information Technology is the man to watch in the...

Cool Breeze: Vasundhara vs Shekhawat camps in Congress

Vasundhara vs Shekhawat camps in CongressRajasthan Congress leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot has upped the ante against his own Chief Minister...