Agent Provocateur

Kanchan Gupta / Analysis The responses to my last post have been extremely useful; they have helped clear doubts in my mind. Scintillating d...

Comment The varied response to my last entry, Locating BJP’s Ideology , is also indicative of the lack of unanimity and the confusion that p...

Comment There was a time when the BJP prided itself as an 'ideological political party' with clarity of thought and purpose. Many of...

Comment I came across this story in the Times of India a couple of days ago: MUMBAI: A section of Muslims is lobbying for the induction of f...

Kanchan Gupta / Comment This year’s general election will be remembered for three myths that determined its amazing outcome, catapulting the...

Here's an update from Uttarakhand: Chief Minister BC Khanduri has managed to cling on to his chair. So, all that talk of 'moral resp...

In defeat, don't introspect, just be disingenuous. This appears to be the prevalent view in the BJP post-May 16. We are yet to see any s...

Kanchan Gupta / Comment After losing the 2004 general election, the BJP had gone into denial mode. After comprehensively losing this year...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK paterfamilias M Karunanidhi on Tuesday (May 19)refused to 'believe' that LTTE supremo Velupillai P...

Kanchan Gupta / Comment H ere's the news of the day from the BJP front, as circulated by PTI: Advani to continue as Leader of Opposition...

Kanchan Gupta /Comment E arly Saturday morning, CPI(M) cadre who had gathered outside the counting centre at Dum Dum parliamentary constitue...

The following are some of the responses I have received to my analysis of the Election 2009 results, "A battle is lost, not the war...

Kanchan Gupta / Analysis A tal Bihari Vajpayee was given to moments of jocular frivolity at times of great stress, for instance on the eve ...

With Taliban gaining a strong foothold in the country's north and northwest, Pakistan faces balkanisation By Ahmede Hussain W ith half o...

T he 24x7 TV channels have revised their estimates of which party is getting how many seats, but while most suggest that it's a close ra...

EXIT POLLS PREDICT RESULTS On Wednesday, May 13, the final and concluding round of voting for the 15th Lok Sabha was held, bringing to an en...