Modi
New Nehru for the Right? Modi’s and Nehru’s politics are inverted mirror images of each other
The one political leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often been compared to is Indira Gandhi. Like Modi, after all, she was the last Indian prime minister to win a renewed absolute parliamentary majority for her party after a full term. And like the prime minister’s thumping 2019 triumph in the face of what the […..]
Bhakt goggles? Why jobs became secondary in this poll campaign
As we wait for the end of this long election season, one of the big questions that has flummoxed all liberals and those fighting the BJP is why Brand Modi still seems relatively impervious to the problem of falling job-creation and several declining economic indicators, which would have brought any other government low. Irrespective of […..]
People on ground are voting for Modi
#May23WithTimesNow | People on ground are voting for Modi: @nalinmehta, Executive Editor, Times of India. pic.twitter.com/wnMK14Wx0X — TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) April 11, 2019
Modi, Moody’s and the changing mood
Is Moody’s also ‘sickular’? A research arm of one the world’s leading global ratings agencies has now said what many in India have long been warning the government about. In its report titled, ‘India Outlook: Searching for Potential’, Moody’s Analytics has rung three alarm bells. First, it says, there are “indications that investors have been […..]
Did Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ diversity memo not reach Giriraj?
Invoking Sardar Patel, Prime Minister Modi has once again linked unity and harmony to development, arguing in his latest ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme that ‘peace, harmony and unity’ are the keys to progress (As it happened: PM Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’). It is a welcome message but once again, it seems to have little effect […..]
Decoding the ‘message’ in Narendra Modi’s message
No one in contemporary Indian politics understands the significance of words, of messaging and of symbolism more than Narendra Modi. As someone who redefined the very idiom of Indian politics largely on the back of his oratory and adroit use of public messaging, what he says is as important as how he says it. Equally […..]
