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Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s resounding victory in the by-election to the Bhabanipur seat was no surprise. The record margin of victory, which was twice the majority the winning TMC candidate had secured in the April-May elections, and the fact that Mamata Banerjee dominated every ward in the constituency speak of the decisiveness

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s statement in the recently concluded legislature session that a whopping Rs 20,000 crore had been spent on maintenance of roads in Bengaluru over five years is shocking as virtually no thoroughfare is free from potholes even after spending such a huge amount of taxpayers’ money. This once again exposes how deep-rooted corruption is in the BBMP

The Congress, which was the biggest political party in the country and has great traditions of popular mobilisation and governance, seems to be reducing itself to a historical relic, unable to relate to the present and unsure of the future.

The National Rare Diseases Policy announced by the government is a step forward in an area that called for much attention from both government and society. It addresses a number of issues and challenges faced by patients of rare diseases and their families and caregivers, but it also has scope for improvement. Rare diseases present unique problems which are not seen in the

In a self-explanatory note written in Young India, Mahatma Gandhi pictured his own persona aptly. “The politician in me has never dominated a single decision of mine, and if I seem to take part in it, it is only because politics encircles us like the coils of a snake from which no one cannot get out easily, and I have been experimenting with myself and my friends by

In April 1995, then Prime Minister PV Narsimha Rao was nervous as militants had taken hold of the famous Charar-i-Sharif and he invited a Kashmir expert to discuss what his government could do, in addition to the Army siege of the militants, to resolve the impasse. The expert senstised Rao on the matter – Charar-i-Sharif was not merely a place of religious worship, but

The recent elections to the German parliament marked the end of an era in more ways than one.  For one, this was the first time in several decades that Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany’s first woman chancellor, did not contest the elections. More importantly, it is the first time in two decades that Merkel did not lead her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in the

Whatever Navjot Singh Sidhu meant by saying that “the collapse of a man’s character stemmed from the compromise corner”, his resignation as the Punjab Congress president meant the collapse of a political arrangement the party made in the state in the last few weeks and of the credibility of the party high command that made the arrangement, with the party being effectively seen

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly covered an array of subjects, ranging from India’s achievements in vaccine development to the Afghan crisis, the effectiveness of the UN, the need for a rules-based order on the seas, and extremism.

The hyphenated word Dalit-Sikh, being used in the media in the wake of the recent transfer of power from a dynast to a Dalit in Punjab, connotes a historical gap, an unfinished integration, a failed promise, or worse an unbridgeable divide. For many outside Punjab, this must have come as a big surprise, even shock, since Sikhism has been understood commonly as an equalitarian