Media
Many waves and a media Tsunami
There was a wave. More than one. A wave of revulsion against the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre. A wave of anger too, against the highest sustained price rise over a five-year period in […]
Indian National Congress
Elections
The Rise of the Shoe-cide Bomber
The Aam Aadmi Party’s colourful contestant for the West Delhi Lok Sabha seat, Jarnail Singh, once threw a symbolic shoe at (then) Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram. His election symbol now though is a jaadu, not a shoe. Though […]
Agrarian crisis
Unwilling parents, unwary orphans
In some ways, it was the turning point in Andhra Pradesh. The 2002 visit of Congress president Sonia Gandhi to the State both galvanised her demoralised party and brought hope to families destroyed by the […]