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Indian political parties need to focus on issue-based campaigning

14 Apr 2019

The Indian elections that kicked off on Thursday are a democratic exercise the likes of which the world has never seen. In the world’s largest democratic practice, around 900 million voters – more than the combined population of all the European countries, across 543 constituencies will cast their votes to decide the fate of political parties.

Sanders’s health plan puts Dems in a bind

11 Apr 2019

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-All plan was already bold. It just got even bolder.

Victory awaits Corbyn if he can seize the day

15 Apr 2019

I have always been sceptical about Jeremy Corbyn, but I have to give him some credit for his handling of the Brexit crisis. Which is to say he persistently made it worse while pretending to make it better. It’s masterful, in its way.

How to make amends for wrongs of history

15 Apr 2019

Amid the cacophony of a divisive election campaign, India on Saturday somberly marked the 100th anniversary of the most abominable crime of the British colonial regime, recorded in history as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Trade war: Trump is back at the table with China

05 Apr 2019

Trade. Tariffs. Talks collapsing before they begin. Politicians, diplomats and negotiators sniping at each other. No, not Brexit (just for a change) but the US-China trade war.

Advani’s wise advice falls on deaf ears

07 Apr 2019

It would have been better if L.K. Advani had given his excellent advice to his party men about their attitude towards other parties before being denied a Lok Sabha ticket. Now, it would appear that the nonagenarian former Deputy Prime Minister was expressing his resentment by criticising the party for not choosing him as a candidate for yet another term in the Lok Sabha.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro wreaks havoc on indigenous people

12 Apr 2019

When Jair Bolsonaro became president of Brazil on January 1, the country’s indigenous peoples braced themselves for the worst. Bolsonaro had promised that not another centimetre of indigenous land would be protected under his leadership. He announced his intention to forcibly integrate indigenous peoples and said it was “a shame that the Brazilian cavalry wasn’t as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the Indians”.

Trump signs them, but they seldom have much effect

16 Apr 2019

A seated President Donald Trump handed commemorative pens to his wife, daughter and eight others who hovered around his desk, then theatrically held up for the cameras the latest executive order bearing his oversize signature.

Indian election: Congress manifesto a mirage not reality

07 Apr 2019

After I finished reading the 55-page Congress manifesto for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, I suddenly remembered a scene in the famous political satire British sitcom, ‘Yes Prime Minister’.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio is playing on people’s ignorance of what constitutes socialism

07 Apr 2019

Maybe our hemisphere’s would-be saviour, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, didn’t pay enough attention in political science class.

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