Archive for the ‘Analysis’ Category

Are we really aware of what are the real issues in this election?

By Girish Nikam As we enter the final stretches of the Poll marathon, results of which is still two weeks away, one is appalled by how little we are talking of the real issues being faced by the nation in this election. This became more evident when one went around the Western Uttar Pradesh belt, [...]

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At Half way which way is the Lok Sabha heading?

By Girish Nikam Five years ago around this time when the elections to the 14th Lok Sabha was underway, and then ruling NDA was riding the India Shining bandwagon, Congress which had been out of power for the previous eight years, was at its lowest morale. Even its drum beaters in their war room at [...]

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Bihar Muslims are now looking beyond Lalu Yadav

For a long time in Bihar, the Muslims who constitute 16.5 percent of the 9 crore population, have been lulled into smugness by the relatively peaceful communal atmosphere in the State. This has been largely due to the unabashed pro-Muslim policy adopted by RJD Chief Lalu Yadav in all these almost 20 years that he [...]

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Between despair and hope —-The story of a Ram Sewak and a Prakash Jha

There has always been a joke about bumping into Malayalis in any part of the world, why even in Moon and Mars. That credit (or is it discredit?) should now legitimately go to the Biharis, or atleast they should share it with the Malayalis. Why they have now become such a ubiquitous presence across the [...]

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Election Trail— The criminal-politician nexus

Its indeed been a voyage of discovery, every time one travels in the hinterlands of Bihar, and the education continues. Much has been talked about criminals in politics and their nexus with politicians. One has to wander around Maharajganj and Siwan to understand this nexus. These are two places where criminals with records of murder [...]

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Will Manmohan Singh be a vote catcher for the Congress and UPA?

By Girish Nikam Five years back when Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh was hoisted on the nation by the Congress President Sonia Gandhi after rejecting the demand for herself to occupy the throne, he had made it clear that the mandate was for Sonia Gandhi, and not for me. For some this statement was an act [...]

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Election 2009— Again a Game of alliances

By Girish Nikam When the United Progressive Alliance was formed following the defeat of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in the 2004 general elections, many did not give the newly cobbled up alliance much time for survival. The BJP leadership in particular in fact gave it only six months and later kept revising the fall-date, [...]

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The Gopalaswami misadventure

By Girish Nikam A couple of weeks back when The Hindu broke the controversy about the bickering in the Election Commission between the Chief Election Commissioner N.Gopalaswami and his colleague, Election Commissioner, Navin Chawla, all hell seemed to have broken loose, just on the eve of elections. The media and the polity as well as [...]

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L.K.Advani ko “shock aur outrage” kyon hota hai?

By Girish Nikam It was touching to read the way in which the BJP’s Prime Minister-in-waiting L.K.Advani rushed to the defence of one of the accused in the Malegaon blasts, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur the other day. His reasoning that he had kept quiet all this time as Sadhus and Sadhvis and army officers were [...]

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The phenomenon called Sadhvi Pragya— No time to say, “I told you so”

By Girish Nikam Now, now, don’t tell me Hindus can also indulge in terrorism! How bizarre! How can that be possible? This vote bank politics is being taken just too far. You can’t brand nationalists as terrorists. Don’t push Hindus into a corner like this. It will be at your own peril. There is no [...]

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