Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

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Deputy Comment Editor at The National

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How looming US tariffs could prove to be a 'good crisis' for India

2 months ago | thenationalnews.com | Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

Motorists in Bangalore drive pass a 'Make in India' lion statue. New Delhi needs to put in place policy that will enhance and expand the competitiveness of India's manufacturing base, particularly in the short to medium term. EPA
Amid a cricket face-off in Dubai, the time is ripe for an India-Pakistan ‘Deal of the Century’

Feb 21, 2025 | thenationalnews.com | Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

India and Pakistan will play a Champions Trophy match in Dubai on Sunday. AFPAmid a cricket face-off in Dubai, the time is ripe for an India-Pakistan ‘Deal of the Century’
India's political playing field is more even than it has been for years

Sep 17, 2024 | thenationalnews.com | Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

Supporters of India's opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, shout slogans during an election rally in the India-administered Kashmir region on September 4. Mr Ghandi's party has countered the new government’s agenda every step of the way. APSupporters of India's opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, shout slogans during an election rally in the India-administered Kashmir region on September 4.
Kishida’s legacy in Japan should be defined by his achievements – not his mistakes | The National

Aug 19, 2024 | thenationalnews.com | Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

A huge monitor displays news in Tokyo last week of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida not running for his party's next presidential election. EPAA huge monitor displays news in Tokyo last week of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida not running for his party's next presidential election. EPAKishida’s legacy in Japan should be defined by his achievements – not his mistakesChitrabhanu Kadalayil is deputy comment editor at The National20 August, 2024
Whatever happens in India's election, change is coming

Jun 4, 2024 | thenationalnews.com | Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

In a results-oriented business like electoral politics, there is rarely such thing as a moral victory. But that is precisely what India’s opposition parties achieved on Tuesday even though they are, numerically speaking, unlikely to win the 2024 general election. With the votes still being tallied across the 543 constituencies, as a number of them are too close to call, we won’t know the final result until Wednesday.
Did the BJP's 'Mission 400' seat target make winning India's election mission impossible?

May 15, 2024 | thenationalnews.com | Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

What a difference a month makes. When India’s general election got under way on April 19, the popular assumption was that the Bharatiya Janata Party was primed for a third consecutive term in office. The dominant narrative was that the BJP’s stated target of winning 400 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, as the lower house of Parliament is called, was more than a slogan.
Can Modi's BJP use this election to become a truly pan-India party?

Apr 18, 2024 | thenationalnews.com | Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

“Whether they win, whether they lose, the BJP is going to be the centre of Indian polity – like it was for the Congress for the first 40 years [of India’s post-colonial history]. The BJP is going nowhere.”So said Prashant Kishor, a renowned political strategist-turned-activist, two years ago as he tried to explain why the Bharatiya Janata Party’s thumping victories in the country’s 2014 and 2019 general elections were no flukes.
Is the writing already on the wall for India's opposition?

Dec 18, 2023 | thenationalnews.com | Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

On Tuesday, the opposition alliance called “INDIA” will meet in Delhi to discuss its strategy for the general election in May 2024. As leaders of the 28-party coalition put their heads together to find the best way to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), there is a sense that the writing is already on the wall. The BJP appears likely to win a third straight general election, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and govern the country for another five years.
Despite a security breach, India's parliament belongs to its people

Dec 13, 2023 | thenationalnews.com | Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

Irony came knocking on the Indian Parliament’s door, not once but twice, on Wednesday. Exactly 22 years to the day since a militant group mounted a deadly attack on the old Parliament premises in New Delhi, two people jumped from the visitors’ gallery of the newly inaugurated building right next door into the well of the lower house, and pulled out canisters emitting yellow smoke.
If India can work the way its cricket team does, the future is bright

Nov 21, 2023 | thenationalnews.com | Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life, Oscar Wilde once asserted. In India, one might hope life can imitate cricket, because the country’s cricket team showed – even in the aftermath of Sunday’s World Cup final defeat against Australia – a true determination to achieve excellence. Despite the loss, there are important lessons that India’s supporters can draw from their cricketing heroes – and from how cricket itself is organised in the country. India is, of course, no cricketing rookie.