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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a gathering during a public meeting ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, in Nawada, Sunday, April 7, 2024. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Modi’s narrative work or is the ground shifting?

Amidst assumptions of single-party rule, dissenting voices highlight the diversity and complexity of India's political reality.

07 Apr 2024 11:49 PM

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal being produced before the Rouse Avenue Court, in New Delhi, Friday, March 22, 2024. Kejriwal was arrested on Thursday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the scrapped Delhi excise policy 2021-22. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Kejriwal arrest: Will it help BJP get political advantage?

Modi Government's Influence in ED's Probe of AAP: Political Consequences Unfold

25 Mar 2024 12:03 AM

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar with Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and S.S. Sandhu during announcement of the schedule for General Elections 2024, and elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha, in New Delhi, Saturday, March 16, 2024. Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases beginning from April 19 and results will be announced on June 4. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | ONOE logistics challenge; threat to India’s diversity

India's Election Dynamics: Challenges and Implications of "One Nation, One Election" Proposal

20 Mar 2024 12:05 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Image: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao | Modi ‘guarantees’: Flurry of projects on eve of polls

Prime Minister's flurry of announcements raises questions about timing, electoral strategy, and governance model

11 Mar 2024 12:00 AM

Cover image of Love Jihad and Other Fictions

Book Review | When the fiction is so gratifying, can journalism be ever enough?

They expose systematically love jiihad, population jihad and Muslim appeasement with facts and figures

09 Mar 2024 2:15 PM

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Congress leader Rajeev Shukla during a meeting, in Shimla, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Cong’s slide in Himachal sign of a deeper malaise

Cross-voting chaos in Himachal as Congress faces dissent, BJP claims majority, creating a political turmoil

01 Mar 2024 2:49 AM

Farmers look for cover after police fired tear gas at them during their 'Delhi Chalo' march, near the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border, in Patiala district, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Farmers protesting at the Punjab-Haryana border resumed their march on Wednesday, days after the fourth round of talks with the government over their demands. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Punjab’s farmers the real Opposition to Modi, BJP

Farmers' demands put Modi government in tight spot

22 Feb 2024 12:12 AM

In this May 19, 2017 file photo, Prime Minister Narendra Modi with agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan, in New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that Swaminathan would be posthumously conferred the Bharat Ratna. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Limits to BJP’s domination? Bharat Ratna and Polls 2024

BJP's strategic Bharat Ratna awards raise questions about electoral motives, regional impact, and the party's pursuit of dominance

14 Feb 2024 9:00 PM

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Weak-kneed Nitish Kumar shifts in a political tantrum

Nitish Kumar's return to BJP exposes his reluctance on secularism and socialism, signaling challenges for smaller parties.

31 Jan 2024 12:54 AM

His Majesty’s Headhunters: The Siege of Kohima that Shaped World History. (Image: DC)

Book Review | Untold tales of Naga valour in our Stalingrad of the East

The narrative explores the treacherous terrain, power struggles, and the strategic contributions of the Nagas

28 Jan 2024 12:00 AM

There is a reason that Prime Minister Modi has been emphasising the tourism sector centred around the pilgrimage centres of Ujjain, Varanasi and Ayodhya, because all the efforts to make India the pharmaceutical hub, or the manufacturing hub, of the world had just fizzled out in the past 10 years. (File Image: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Is economy in a feel-good psychedelic state in India?

The Indian economy is turning out to be like the American one in many ways

25 Jan 2024 12:00 AM

Saffron flags bearing images of Lord Ram, Lord Hanuman and the upcoming grand temple on display in front of shops along Ram Path, in Ayodhya. Ahead of the Ram temple consecration ceremony in the holy city, demand for such flags has risen manifold. (PTI Photo/Kunal_Dutt)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi’s Ayodhya overdrive: Will dreams match reality?

It is now a recognisable signature of Prime Minister Modi that he does not believe in anything low key.

15 Jan 2024 12:05 AM

Construction work in progress at Ayodhya Railway Station, on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The lesson from Ayodhya: How power eclipses piety

The Supreme Court judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Majid case had decided the issue in terms of a property dispute.

26 Dec 2023 11:47 PM

The only claim that the Modi government can make is that national security concern was the reason for making the drastic changes in the status of Jammu and Kashmir. (Representative Image: DC)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | SC’s Art. 370 ruling has left key questions unanswered

Even Hindu-majority Jammu is not happy with the new UT status

14 Dec 2023 12:00 AM

Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi with BJP National President J.P. Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah during celebrations after party's victory in elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, at BJP headquarters, in New Delhi, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Local factors led to BJP’s Hindi belt poll triumph

The hard reality is that the Modi factor was absent in all the four states.

04 Dec 2023 12:01 AM

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan (PTI File Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The politics of governors: How Centre tackles states

Kerala Guv Arif Khan should have known better than to use the office of governor as an obstacle in functioning of the CPI(M)-led-LDF govt

27 Nov 2023 11:38 PM

Mr Modi must have realised that his impromptu response to Hamas’ October 7 attack was right in his own eyes and that of his party, and even in the eyes of the Western world, but India cannot afford to take an overtly partisan position. (File Image: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi foreign policy fumble amid Israel-Hamas conflict

India’s position on the Hamas-Israel confrontation is quite different from that of its stance on the Russia-Ukraine war

16 Nov 2023 12:00 AM

The capital city of Delhi enveloped in smog in New Delhi, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Air pollution level is Delhi-NCR has started rising owing much to stubble (parali) burning in adjoining states. (PTI Photo/Arun Sharma)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Delhi’s nightmare: Leaders bicker while citizens suffer

The Centre wants commercial vehicles which do not cater to essential services to be stopped, & 50 percent of employees to work from home

08 Nov 2023 12:05 AM

Identities that cannot be erased from individuals and communities

Telangana Telugu is the one which is not Sanskritised, and even though it is looked down upon

22 Oct 2023 12:00 AM

Coverpage of 'We Also Make Policy: An Insider’s Account of How the Finance Ministry Functions'.

How the PM, PMO Decide on Finance Ministry Affairs

As a bureaucrat, Subhash Chandra Garg adopts the view of the government

15 Oct 2023 2:29 AM

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