A Little This & Lots of That
Post-Gujarat, PM Modi will opt for incrementalism and populism in his final year The BJP’s sixth successive victory in the
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Win or lose, you shouldn’t write off Rahul Gandhi
What are the political prospects of Rahul Gandhi, elected Congress president last week? His electoral track record is dismal. Congress
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The Day Choice Was Killed
The Hadiya verdict negates several freedoms, including to marry a terrorist Inthe ‘love jihad’ case involving the conversion of a
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Economy: It’s not a thumbs up but a ‘bottoms down’
After falling for five successive quarters, GDP growth in July-September was 6.3%, up from 5.7% in the previous quarter. Many
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Why invest in oil when it’s riding into the sunset?
Railway minister Piyush Goyal said last week that the railways would be completely electrified by 2022, phasing out diesel locomotives.
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Why Moody’s is no longer singing the blues on India
India looks more impressive from New York than New Delhi. That explains the credit upgrade to India given by Moody’s,
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Russian ‘help’ to Trump holds important poll lessons for India
Russian hacking into the US presidential election has spurred claims that Donald Trump’s victory was tainted, maybe rigged. Twitter identified
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(Held) Back in the USSR
The 1917 Russian Revolution carried the seeds of its system’s collapse in 1991 The 1917 Russian Revolution seemed epochal for
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The 1917 Russian Revolution was a German plot
Communists will celebrate the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917 as a triumph of workers and peasants. In fact
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