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The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst

The last active politician who became President before Pranab Mukherjee was Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1992. So it was not an easy going for Pranab. File Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Pranab Da's politics: Adept at managing...

Pranab showed that he was capable in dealing with the intricacies of administration without handing over levers of power...

4 Sept 2020 4:23 PM IST

Children hold Indian flags as they celebrate Independence Day in Dharavi. AP Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India's mood is sombre: Is Modi government...

Independence Day has also been a grim occasion for many of those who had to leave behind everything they had

15 Aug 2020 5:38 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi in the Bhoomi Pujan (ANI)

Parsa Venkateshwar | Puja at Ayodhya: Modi's bid to seal BJP's future?

He was careful enough to avoid mentioning the other part of the Ayodhya settlement as directed by the SC in its November...

5 Aug 2020 8:26 PM IST

Mumbai: Jyoti Randhe, a class 10th student of BMC school, studies at her house, at Aarey Colony in Mumbai. AFP Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | NEP is ambitious, but needs more...

To put the ideas of the plan into action, many more institutions have to be set up

1 Aug 2020 4:26 PM IST

(From left) Sachin Pilot with Ashok Gehlot

Parsa | A failed coup & intolerant CM fuels Raj sarkar crisis

There is room only for one leader, It is the same culture that has been enacted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the...

16 July 2020 6:57 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to a forward location in Nimu in Ladakh. PTI Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The politics of Modi's Galwan, COVID...

It has become clear by now that Modi is uncomfortable with the nitty-gritty, and with details

4 July 2020 6:30 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the CII Annual Session-2020 via video conferencing, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | A bad start to 2.0: Modi's bravado fails...

When Modi and the BJP came back to power in the summer of 2019, the euphoria was confined mainly to the party

3 Jun 2020 5:09 PM IST

A market complex is seen open after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Siliguri. PTI Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr: Will Atma Nirbhar Bharat' ignite the...

By leaving it as an open-ended term, Mr Modi and his colleagues want to wait and watch which way the global trade winds...

22 May 2020 6:54 PM IST

What we need are strategies for coping with Covid-19 and they need not be drastic ones like the national lockdowns, or even large-scale quarantining. PTI Photo

Covid-19: A glimmer of hope as recoveries rise

The difference between the fatalities and recoveries is huge, and gives rise to more than a glimmer of hope

28 April 2020 6:20 PM IST

Forensic officials arrive at Nizamuddin Markaz to conduct an investigation into the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus at a congregation organised by the Tablighi Jamaat in mid-March. (PTI)

Covid's TJ factor: Shun prejudice, stick to facts

The vilification of the Tablighi Jamaat is nothing but transparent majoritarian prejudice in full display

9 April 2020 3:40 PM IST

The Shaheen Bagh women need to form a committee of their own to steer the protests, and to prevent troublemakers from hijacking the peaceful movement.

Violence in Delhi shows politics at boiling point

It's not necessary to talk in alarmist tones about the breakdown in law and order.

26 Feb 2020 6:27 AM IST

A child dressed as Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal holds a blue balloon at the party headquarters in New Delhi on February 11, 2020. (AFP)

In AAP's triumph, a new kind of politics emerges

In many ways, Mr Kejriwal and Mr Modi are both modern politicians of the 21st century.

12 Feb 2020 2:32 AM IST