Dynasty - Different Truths

November 29, 2023
Sailasree Potay
History & Culture, Travel & Food

Golconda: The Fort that Stands Aloof!

The Golconda Fort is a mini city in itself and even today after almost 800 years it still stands as one of the Hyderabad’s greatest architectural wonders, a testimony to...

June 4, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

It is High Time NDA Addressed Core Economic Issues

Though there is not much of a difference between a dynasty and a single-party supreme leader in terms of his or her writ being run unquestioned, the fact remains...

May 29, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Anti-BJP Front Has to Avoid Fate of Janata Party in 1979: Regional Leaders Must Have a National Vision

There is a modicum of truth in Jaitley’s argument that the “chemistry” of a New India will overcome the “arithmetic” of “disparate” political groups because of Narendra Modi’s personal...

May 22, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Worry for NDA as Modi-Shah Duo no Longer Unassailable: Congress-JD(S) Victory in Karnataka Galvanises Opposition

The contest in Karnataka, the BJP apparently thought that a barnstorming campaign by Modi would be enough to enable the party to sail through. That it nevertheless had slight...

May 15, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Deve Gowda Becomes the Good Father, but another Baby Goes Out With the Bath Water

Siddaramaiah has lost more than one arm. BS Yeddyurappa lost his cup of joy because there are these things called ‘slip’ and ‘lip’. Amit Shah lost his confidence. Rahul...

March 4, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Gender, History & Culture, LGBTQIA+

A Historical Perspective of Transgender, a Different Community

In the earliest ages, these people were quite often thought to possess the wisdom that traditionally-gendered people did not, and were venerated for this. As civilisations transformed from matrilineal...

February 24, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

How Trinamool Splits Anti-BJP Consolidation: Increasing Evidence of Tacit Understanding with BJP

Are the TMC and the BJP in a clandestine tie-up of sorts? Opposition parties in Bengal are convinced that they are. Both the Congress and the CPI(M)-led Left Front...

February 9, 2018
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
History & Culture, Travel & Food

Lucknow: Of Nawabs, Kebabs, and Tehzeeb

Ruchira takes us on a tour of Lucknow, where currents and crosscurrents of divergent cultures intermingled and blended, to finally emerge as a new composite whole. Read more in...

January 13, 2018
Suveera Sharma
Crime, History & Culture

Lawless Kowloon was a City within a City, a Hub of Vice

The dark past of one of the major hubs of the city was the infamous walled city of Kowloon. It became a city within a city. A haven for...

December 11, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

Development vs. Dynasty was the Pitch of BJP in the First Phase of Gujarat Assembly Elections

PM Narendra Modi has led the BJP A-Listers in the party’s campaign, pitching the Gujarat election as a contest between development and dynasty. Rahul Gandhi attacks the BJP for...

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