Saturday 22 March '08
I can never forget June 12, 1975. It was the usual, hot, summer vacation day in my village.Wednesday 5 March '08
As Nagaland goes to the polls today, the first phase of assembly elections 2008 comes to an end in the Northeast. What do elections mean for the peace process in Nagaland, home to the region’s moststubborn conflict? And what was the state of political play in Meghalaya, and in Tripura before that?Tuesday
19 February '08The delimitation exercise has been wonderfully non-partisan. But it’s still incompleteMonday
10 December '07The signs are enough to think about what was unspeakable a while ago: Modi can lose the election.Thursday
15 November '07Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s position in Gujarat today is similar to that of Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s before the last Lok Sabha elections.Tuesday
11 September '07Did you ever feel like asking the real “public” or the “nation” to please stand up in this intense debate over the Indo-US nuclear deal...Tuesday
11 September '07For the ruling alliance at the Centre, the signals are unmistakable: Call a flash election, or else face the brewing disaffection against the government laterSunday
9 September '07Mock mid-term poll shows that if polls now, this could be the first time since 1991 that Congress may cross 200-seat mark and first time since 1989 that BJP could fail to touch three digits...Thursday
16 August '07Now that the official celebrations of nationhood are over, one can be forgiven for asking a provocative question: should we be celebrating nations...Wednesday
15 August '07Two siblings separated at birth and brought up in very different milieu meet each other as adults and offer a study in contrast.Tuesday
14 August '07Monday
13 August '07As India and Pakistan mark 60 years of Independence, nothing is a more powerful symbol of the divide between the two than Kashmir, that legacy of Partition.Wednesday
27 June '07Hindi news TV would not have been where it is today, but for Surendra Pratap Singh or ‘SP’, who died ten years ago. But he would not have recognised what passes for Hindi TV news todayWednesday
23 May '07We know the outcome, we have at last a clear verdict, but do we have a mandate here? This big question begs an answer of any post-mortem of the UP polls.Saturday
19 May '07The party’s own issue has no relevance; the party figures nowhere in issues that are relevantFriday
18 May '07The Samajwadi Party did not face ‘voter rage’. But this election shows that Mulayam’s Muslim vote is not all that strongThursday
17 May '07Perhaps no electoral verdict has combined all the axes of social disadvantage in our society — caste, class, gender, region and urban-rural — as the BSP’s victoryWednesday
16 May '07We begin a series of post-mortems of the UP verdict by the CSDS team. The first part turns the searchlight within: what went wrong with the pollsters?Saturday
12 May '07You have to mute your TV to listen to this strange, feeble voice. Strange, for it speaks a language that you and I may easily misrecognise...Wednesday
9 May '07Despite a projected 6% vote swing, majority may still elude BSP but its likely tally 160. SP No. 2, BJP trails; Cong could hold key to who takes UPWednesday
9 May '07The electoral battle for Uttar Pradesh this time was all about the ‘plus vote’. Each of the major players had their base vote, crucial for staying in the race.Wednesday
2 May '07Who the Plus will be (Cong?) depends on actual numbers — BSP projected at 145-155 still short by 50; SP bounces back to No. 2, BJP slips to No. 3Sunday
22 April '07House still hung but BJP gains because of its coalitions; Mulayam’s Muslim vote is cracking to BSP’s benefit; Rahul’s popularity is up but that may be too little, too lateWednesday
28 March '07They say elections in UP are about nothing except caste. But if you look between the numbers from The Indian Express-CNN-IBN-CSDS pre-poll...Wednesday
28 March '07Projection of another hung Assembly will not surprise any Uttar Pradesh watcher. The last time any party got a clear majority in an Assembly election in the state was in 1991.
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