Opinion

ECI ensured a level playing field for all the parties in West Bengal, unlike earlier, when different stages of the polling process were subverted by the ruling party.

The UAE’s decision alters oil’s future trajectory. Rather than a gradual decline dictated by scarcity, there may be a phase of heightened production, followed by abrupt adjustments.

'Bengal is caste-less' is a hegemonic notion peddled by the Bhadralok. It swept the crucial question of Dalit struggle, first under the red carpet and then the blue.

Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts is hosting Growing Up in Mário’s World—a month-long exhibition of a hundred original works from a private collection.

If elections change so many state governments – West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu – it means that India’s electoral democracy remains quite vigorous. Government turnovers are the best antidote to the idea of electoral autocracies.

The might of the state has won through the SAMADHAN strategy, but now it must do what is right.

Those raging at the Congress for ‘opposing’ national security should realise that Congress governments built much of the defence infrastructure in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Mamata Banerjee built a politics of presence for women. But when it came to principle, that presence often rang hollow.

In a state where one of the two dominant Dravidian parties, the DMK and the AIADMK, has been in power since 1967, the TVK’s focus on change found clear resonance.

At some stage, Modi will have to decide what the BJP stands for. Does it only stand for governance in Delhi? And does it need to depend on religious polarisation in the states?