Karnataka: The Flip-Flops and Ping-Pong
All but one exit poll point to a hung assembly. Only the Today’s Chanakya poll puts the BJP in a majority: 120 seats. And the Axis-India Today poll places...
Trinamool Prefers Short Term Gains That May Hurt Later: Sweeping Victory in Panchayat Poll a Sham
At least 16 people have been killed, from Jalpaiguri to Midnapore and over 500 people injured. Where armed TMC mobs could not reach opposition candidates hiding for their lives,...
Karnataka Polls: Some Things are Unstoppable as Karnataka Shows How Politics is Poison
Temples and mutts hardened stance weeks ago and no visits to temples in foreign climes will change voter preference so late in the day. Saturday (May 12, 2018), cash...
Modi Makes Karnataka Poll Acid Test for 2019: Desperate Campaign to Make the State Congress-Mukt
If the Modi vituperative magic does not work as much as hoped for in Karnataka, it would mean that BJP, with its current majoritarian hold over the country and...
A Socialist Vision Can be a Reality in Britain: Communists Will Back Corbyn to Make That Happen
In 2017, the majority of the world’s 150 biggest economic entities were giant capitalist corporations. The largest 25 were countries, headed by those — the US, Germany, Britain, France,...
BJP, Opposition Parties Brace for UP By-Elections
Opposition parties are working on a formula to field joint candidates against BJP in Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpor Assembly by-elections due on May 28. The by-elections have been...
Modi Fails to Make Wave in Karnataka Campaign: BJP Unnerved by Deft Moves by Siddaramaiah
Notwithstanding the BJP leaders and cadres feeling elated, Modi’s speeches have failed to motivate the average Kannadiga. People expected him to talk about the economic development of the state,...
Rahul Usurps Bragging Rights of SP-BSP
The Congress heads the UPA. But the party has so far lacked innovative leadership. It was the SP and BSP which thought out of the box and won the...
Loss of Face of Zuckerberg is a Gain for the Politician: BJP, Cong Propaganda Machines Engaged in Confusing
Cambridge Analytica changed all that. Zuckerberg failed his ‘friends’. The middleman was back in currency, shaping crowd-perception and then passing the altered crowd-information to interested parties. The Homo Digitalis...
UP: The Tough Battlefield Ahead of Elections
The forthcoming Assembly polls in Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh will decide if other parties would accept Rahul Gandhi’s leadership for a non-BJP alliance. These would also prepare...