Tag: politics
Sri Lanka attacks: government’s social media ban may hide the truth about what is...
SRI LANKA / More than 200 people have been killed in several coordinated bomb attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter.
Is Shehla Rashid Falling for Identity Politics: The Hijab isn’t a Neutral Affair, after...
COMMENTARY / Shehla Rashid’s decision of adorning a Hijab at Shah Faesal’s party launch reminds us of identity politics and the vulnerability of sartorial preferences, in our times.
Good Governance is About Responsibility to People’s Welfare
PERSPECTIVE / The foundation of a good democracy depends on its ability to ensure solid governance which is accountable and conducive to people’s needs.
Education and the 2019 Elections- Is it a Crucial Point?
VIEWPOINT / Education is the foundation for an equitable and just social order but ironically it is seldom seen as an issue that determines public discretion at the time of voting, will things alter in this election season?
Finding out the Mood of the Nation on a Train Journey: Unravelling Public Opinion...
EXPLORATION / I hope and pray that the pathological and exclusionary views that were expressed in the discussion in the train are defeated and the idea of India, which our constitution builders created, prevails.
What Will Half of India Vote For: Women, Marginality and the Politics of Representation?
GENDER/In a nation where women continue to be way more scarcely represented than their male counterparts, how can a democracy ensure that it hears its women out?
Does the Present Electoral System Reflect the Needs of Our Countrymen?
COMMENTARY / The contemporary electoral politics in India has become an occasion for the display of muscle and money strength and much less about delivering people’s needs.
Prime Minister’s Political Rally in West Bengal: Will the B JP Government Outcast a...
The battle between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP in the state of West Bengal will surely be one between political legacy and the power of assertive political campaigning.
Pro-Poor Slogans. Empty Political Rhetoric and a Nationwide Paradox
As the nation confronts its 17th Lok Sabha elections, here is a glance through all the pro-poor slogans that have been uttered by political leaders to entice the poor and the marginal. But transcending this empty rhetoric has policy penetrated down to the last man?
Not in Congress, not in BJP…. Looking for the Missing Gandhi
COMMENTARY / Gandhi family’s visit to the Sabarmati Ashram on the 89th anniversary of the Dandi March ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and Prime Minster Modi’s commentary on the Congress being essentially an anti-thesis of Gandhian ideals - has revealed how Gandhi continues to be a much appropriated symbol within India’s political culture.
