Battle for Maharashtra

Saturday 12 September '09

Why the Congress is re-evaluating its marriage with the NCP....

Cracks in the jigsaw

Friday 20 March '09

Are we going back to post-election alliances rather than pre-poll coalitions?

Who gains from Mandal II?

Friday 25 April '08

No one, really, writes Suhas Palshikar, because the mobilisational space available around this issue has shrunk dramatically.

The Quota of Missed Opportunities

Saturday 12 April '08

In its victory, the social justice cause might just be becoming an ineffective tool for mobilisation and democratisation

We the peoples

Friday 24 August '07

Let’s have a diversity audit for India. Because democracy is not to be defined in only procedural and formal ways

(Congress)woman empowered

Tuesday 19 June '07

Pratibha Patil as the UPA’s presidential candidate is a shining example of symbolism coming to the aid of convenience. It is also symptomatic of the way Congress works

Maharashtra style Moditva

Thursday 17 May '07

A research institute demands a ban on a book. A ‘secular’ government ignores it and ‘secular’ parties behave like Gandhi’s three monkeys. Academia remains silent

On social justice, let’s begin again

Saturday 31 March '07

Are quotas the best way to redress discrimination? Or do we need a more nuanced policy? The court mandated stay on OBC reservations provides the opportunity for a paradigm shift