It was unsurprising that BJP rushed the swearing-in of Bengal’s new CM — even as Assam will have the same ceremony next week — and held it on Saturday on Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary. BJP’s sweeping victory in West Bengal was built on several planks. One was a marked shift during election campaigning to combat…
Congress high command’s dithering before confirming Satheesan as Kerala CM has taken the shine off the party’s post-win profile, and is a bad sign for the future VD Satheesan’s rise as the most popular political figure in Kerala, and now CM-designate, cannot be understood merely through the conventional language of electoral arithmetic, or anti-incumbency. His…
Suvendu Adhikari is a rare politician who has demonstrated humility, ideological commitment, an unapologetic stance on Hindu assertion and a vision for moving forward. Although I have never met him, I feel he is the rightful inheritor of Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s legacy. Many may not remember that the first-ever government with a saffron coalition, known…
Can a former chief minister simply wear an advocate’s gown? The answer matters, otherwise, tomorrow, retired actors may claim surgical privileges because they played doctors Indian politics has produced many transformations. Revolutionaries becomeadministrators, agitators become constitutionalists, and occasionally politicians rediscover forgotten professions at strategically dramatic moments. But Mamata Banerjee’s recent appearance before the Calcutta high…
Politicians can make serious statements that make you laugh. One such came from a member of the anti-Edappadi K Palaniswami faction of AIADMK the other day. “This Vijay,” he told a reporter off the record, “can never be trusted.” He was complaining about TVK going back on its “promise” to induct members of the faction…
Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly round-up of top international news. This week we are covering Zelenskyy’s open letter to Putin, EU’s unveiling of the 21st sanctions package against Russia, Pashinyan wins Armenia’s election, tensions flare up again in the US-Israel war against Iran, and the Trumpian Fifa World Cup…
India is preparing to welcome the Prime Minister of Japan later this month as part of efforts to establish a deeper, more robust relationship between the two countries. The proposed summit-level meeting with the Prime Ministers of India and Japan will focus on many aspects of the India-Japan partnership, including economic cooperation and collaboration across…
The teaser of ‘Love Oh Love’ has been released, and it introduces us to an entertainer with a lot of fun, emotion, and relatable content around a young romantic hero. Directed by Magesh Rajendran, the movie features debutants like Naga Durga along with Pavish Narayan, who happens to be the niece of actor Dhanush. The…
Years before fashion reels and nostalgia-driven content became the norm, Karisma Kapoor was influencing style choices through her films. Her colourful outfits, statement hairstyles and trendsetting looks in films such as ‘Coolie No. 1′, ‘Hero No. 1’, ‘Judwaa’ and ‘Dil To Pagal Hai’ became hugely popular among audiences in the 1990s. Today, those same fashion…
Heeding appeals from clerics, community leaders and imams, Muslim youths largely stayed away from the maiden protest of the nascent Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on June 6 at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Staying away from this highly-publicised and widely covered meeting of an outfit created in the backdrop of paper leaks of NEET and…
