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Congress vs BJP? No, it's the establishment vs the outsider 25 Aug 2013 | 12:51 pm
By Swapan Dasgupta In nine months, at the very latest, Indians will know whether the drive to catapult Narendra Modi from Gandhinagar to New Delhi has been successful or not. Indian elections being n...
A Large Inheritance and its Conflicted Parts 15 Aug 2013 | 12:43 pm
By Swapan Dasgupta The Telegraph, August 15, 2013 Indians, it is often said, have the disconcerting habit of tailoring their views to suit the listener, especially if he/she happens to be powerful o...
BJP-HATERS’ NEW PLOT TO STALL MODI 12 Aug 2013 | 11:55 am
By Swapan Dasgupta Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is both an accomplished politician and blessed with a pleasing personality. He has admirers cutting across the political and ide...
Time to let go of a bigger line of control? 12 Aug 2013 | 11:49 am
By Swapan Dasgupta For once it is difficult to blame the media for getting into a tizzy over events on the Line of Control. If enemy action resulted in the killing of five Indian soldiers, the matter...
A POLLSTERS’ REPUBLIC - Opinion polls as a business opportunity 3 Aug 2013 | 11:47 am
By Swapan Dasgupta As a precocious and somewhat impressionable 15-year-old in Calcutta, I was enthralled by the political drama that was being enacted in 1970-71, between the Congress split and the g...
INDIA IS READY FOR CHANGE AT CENTRE 31 Jul 2013 | 02:32 pm
By Swapan Dasgupta The word ‘ghetto’ has a pejorative connotation. We associate it with closed communities of broadly similar people who are inclined to think that their little worlds constitute the ...
Indians are natural chameleons, Rajnathji 28 Jul 2013 | 12:34 pm
By Swapan Dasgupta Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri (1897-1999) was one of the 20th century’s towering Indian intellectuals. In his lifetime he was, however, largely the object of derision in his own country....
The Unknown 28 Jul 2013 | 12:28 pm
By Swapan Dasgupta The concerns of the ‘Beltway’, it has long been recognised in the United States, rarely determine the outcome of electoral battles—although they are paramount in other times. For a...
2014 Poll unique for one reason: MODI 24 Jul 2013 | 11:34 am
By Swapan Dasgupta There was a flurry of excitement in a small patch of Lutyens’ Delhi—faithfully repeated in the media—over the composition of the umpteen committees set up by the BJP for the manage...
STORM IN A DRAPERY - On the significance of words and imagery 19 Jul 2013 | 11:27 am
By Swapan Dasgupta Last week, while nosing through the stacks of a library I came across a long-forgotten book, India in Ferment by Claude H. Van Tyne, an American historian and Pulitzer Prize winner...
