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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
About the AuthorParsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst
    Former Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (Photo: Twitter)Opinion
    At home in court, Parliament, and the social circuit

    Like a good lawyer with a sharp eye, he could grasp the treacherous nuances of the social and political landscape.

    25 Aug 2019 12:07 AM IST

    The quickness with which Indian right-wingers and Pakistans hardliners bring in the nuclear option into the barbed exchanges between the two countries reveals that the leaders of these two countries behave like leaders of banana republics. (Representational Image/ Pixabay)Opinion
    India-Pak wrangling on N-weapons dangerous

    It is true that the Indian missile air, land and water programme has the aim of nuclear-tipped weaponry. But it is not...

    20 Aug 2019 8:12 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: ANI | Twitter)Opinion
    PM tries to inspire, but skirts the real anxieties

    Modi conveyed his greetings to Afghanistan, that will be celebrating its Independence Day a few days later, and skipped...

    16 Aug 2019 12:29 AM IST

    Kashmiris walks past paramilitary troops patrolling a street in Srinagar on Saturday. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Can Delhi deliver vikas to post-370 Kashmir?

    The rightness or wrongness of the decision will now depend on what it can accomplish in terms of making Kashmir a normal...

    12 Aug 2019 3:00 AM IST

    Sushma Swaraj said that she has directed concerned authorities to be cautious while processing applications of the affected persons for re-issuance of their passports. (Photo: File | ANI)Opinion
    A true-grit achiever, she was capable of more

    The party took full advantage, and rightly so, of her ability to speak loudly and clearly, with force and conviction.

    8 Aug 2019 12:05 AM IST

    People take part in a protest to express solidarity with the Unnao rape survivor at India Gate in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Unnao: It's time to act, outrage is not enough

    So when help is denied to a hapless citizen at all levels, it could not but end in tragedy of enormous proportion.

    3 Aug 2019 1:16 AM IST

    Karnataka CM H.D. Kumaraswamy with his cabinet colleagues after the Assembly was adjourned in Bengaluru on Friday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    No early end in sight to Karnataka turbulence

    It is a moot question whether it would have survived if the coalition partners had done well in the parliamentary...

    25 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

    Speaker Ramesh KumarOpinion
    Can Speaker dictate terms of resignation?

    The Congress as a party would not want to be blackmailing the government.

    17 July 2019 2:45 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah arrive for the BJP Central Election Committee meeting for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on Saturday. (Photo: G.N. Jha)Opinion
    No talk of jobs will not make the issue go away

    Shah had talked of self-employment as a way of dealing with the jobs problem, making it evident that the government is...

    9 July 2019 12:17 AM IST

    Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with her team before presenting the budget. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)Opinion
    Nirmala's Budget fullof political flourishes

    The Budget speech was a political declamation, but there were strong signs of the government's desperate bid to ...

    6 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: ANI | Twitter)Opinion
    Checks and balances: Hubris for Modi, BJP

    Modi is not the first person to express his irritation with the political numbers in the Rajya Sabha.

    2 July 2019 3:03 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra ModiOpinion
    Prosaic agenda: Where is the Modi 2.0 vision?

    There is the predictable and justifiable note of boastfulness after the unmistakable and assertive election victory of...

    22 Jun 2019 7:28 AM IST

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