Surpassing the suspicion on EVM
The EVM debate is back. There is nothing fresh about it: the context, the arguments, the debaters. Unfortunately, it is not clear how this dispute can be settled or even…
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Models of Nationalism
The recent charade of a public debate by Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann on the river water dispute between Punjab and Haryana troubled me. Not merely because there was nothing public…
Shocking! Money matters so much in election
“Have you not heard of Munugode?” I was in Telangana, trying to make sense of the forthcoming elections. Every conversation began and ended with money. This was my turn to…
Relevance of caste based Census
If the proof of the kheer is in the eating, the first spoonful of caste data from Bihar “census” proves why we need a national wide caste census. Driven by…
INDIA alliance hasn’t boycotted journalism. It has only refused to dance with the jokers
What can I teach Shekhar Gupta, Rajdeep Sardesai, Karan Thapar, and Ruben Banerjee about journalism? Nothing. These are some of the well-respected journalists in the country. Each one has his…
WRB: When will it actually tick in
Something is better than nothing, I told myself, trying to balance mixed emotions at the passage of the women’s reservation bill (WRB, officially the128th Amendment to the Constitution). But it…
‘Crisis of Democracy’
Let us believe the official fiction. Let us pretend that the five-day special parliament session has indeed been called to discuss “Parliamentary Journey of 75 Years Starting from Samvidhan Sabha –…
Here are two things INDIA alliance must do based on national surveys’ results
Here is good news and bad news for INDIA coalition partners to deliberate in their ongoing Mumbai meet. Bad news first: The Bharatiya Janata Party continues to be the frontrunner for the 2024 Lok Sabha…
Something was fishy about 2019 polls for sure, but don’t expect Das’ paper to catch the fish
My first reaction was pure envy: I wish I could do this kind of data analysis. Also, there was an element of jealousy: The writer was an economist, not a fellow…
Don’t see Manipur crisis as a Hindu-Christian binary. That’s just desi orientalism
Edward Said’s Orientalism is one of the most influential books in the last five decades. His classic study of Western representations of the Middle East showed how the essentialist frame of knowledge produced by…