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Dec 12, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashish Ranjan |Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
The Aam Aadmi Party and the autorickshaws of the national capital share a special bond. In the 2013 Assembly election, which saw the AAP’s electoral debut, autorickshaws played a crucial role in its outreach. Posters featuring a determined-looking Arvind Kejriwal waving the broom—AAP’s election symbol—carried slogans such as “Is Baar Chalegi Jhadu” (The Broom Will Sweep All) and “Sheila Hatao, Kejriwal Lao, Dilli Bachao” (Remove Sheila [Dikshit], Bring Kejriwal, Save Delhi).
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashish Ranjan |Vaishna Roy
Do India’s Muslims need to change their approach? This was one of the questions asked after I had given a talk about Nehru’s approach in The Discovery of India. I did not know who asked the question. Was it a Hindu or a Muslim? Whatever be the identity of the questioner I needed to hear it in the context it was asked. But before that, I also needed to understand what the questioner wanted to ask.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Jinoy Jose P |Ashish Ranjan |Vaishna Roy
Dear reader,In 1910, George Bernard Shaw created a curious character called General Mitchener in his play Press Cuttings. This high-ranking officer could face down armies but trembled at the sight of suffragettes (women fighting for the right to vote) with pamphlets. Shaw sets the play a couple of years into the future and on an April Fool’s Day:The forenoon of the first of April, 1911. General Mitchener is at his writing table in the War Office, opening letters.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashish Ranjan |Vaishna Roy
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |Ashish Ranjan |Vaishna Roy
Six women died in Ballari in Karnataka in November following caesarean section deliveries at the government district hospital, raising serious concerns about the quality of maternal health care in the State. All the women died following complications after a substandard intravenous fluid was used to restore hydration and fluid balance.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashish Ranjan |Vaishna Roy |Manash Bhattacharjee
At the launch of historian Aditya Mukherjee’s Nehru’s India: Past Present & Future in New Delhi earlier this month, invited speakers shared their own sense of intellectual, political and cultural affinity with Nehru, referring to certain highpoints of Mukherjee’s book in passing. I consider this an unsatisfactory gesture, as the book deserved primary engagement. Yet, I am willing to concede such a gesture is somewhat understandable in Nehru’s case.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Ashish Ranjan
6 hours ago Donald Trump To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship: Its Impact On Indians The right of birthright citizenship is based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and is well-established under US law, so elimination would … 11 hours ago For the first time, Pawar has been politically assassinated, says BJP leader At a public meeting organised by the BJP in support of EVMs, the politicians called Pawar a “cunning wolf”, “untrustworthy” and a “betrayer” Only days … 1 hour ago IAS who’s...
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Karan Madhok |Vaishna Roy |Sarthak Bagchi |Ashish Ranjan
The verdict in favour of the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election has not only surprised voters and observers but even seasoned political analysts and politicians by the sheer scale of its victory.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Mujibur Rehman |Vaishna Roy |Ashish Ranjan
In a democracy, elections and the predictions and surveys associated with them are not a recent phenomenon. A look at the history of exit polls in India and abroad tells us that the Indian Institute of Public Opinion conducted the first election poll in India, during the second general election conducted in 1957. The Survey was headed by Eric de Costa; however, one might say that this was not a full-fledged exit poll.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashish Ranjan |Vaishna Roy |M. Suresh Babu
Bibek Debroy—”Bibekda,” “Bibek sir,” and simply “Bibek” to his close friends and colleagues—who passed away on November 1, 2024, was a policy advisor of a different breed. He straddled the complexities of economic policymaking with ease.
