Crux of Assam: Problems and the Parties Involved
The Assam elections are shaping to be much closer than initially anticipated with various issues dominating the political discourse.
BJP
West Bengal Elections: Leaving no stone unturned
It has been a significant rise for the BJP in the state. BJP has not presented its CM candidate yet. Now, this creates a quandary for the people, as they don’t know who will serve them as their CM.
West Bengal: What is making BJP so optimistic about this election?
Bengal is closing in on the state election. In 2016, she appeared invincible. However, today the overwhelming feeling is rather than bringing in the change she promised, she co-opted the system left behind by the Left Front.
On Defection: Why Always the Congress MLA?
The BJP’s eagerness to topple elected governments has created an alternative for the new generation defector, the Congress defector.
Scientific Temper and the New Education Policy 2020
What counts as ‘evidence’ in the NEP’s vision of “inculcating scientific temper with evidence based thinking”?
The Hindutva Right and its disdain for secularism
When it comes to the matter of secularism, the BJP and RSS have been very dismissive about its importance in the Indian scenario.
The Phenomenon called MGNREGA – Part 2
While it is far from perfect, definitely inefficient, and highly opaque, it has surely changed the lives of many. The MGNREGA, as an idea, has a lot of potential
The Phenomenon called MGNREGA – Part 1
MGNREGA has been hailed by many as the largest rural employment schemes in the world and has been credited with initiating a splendid transformation in India’s rural areas in many respects. Over the years, it has seen many changes and iterations, has had its fair share of controversies, and has also built up a sizable opposition that questions its necessity and efficiency
Welfare in India: Business, BJP and Middle Class – 2
The BJP manages to run and maintain pro-poor welfare schemes while also furthering its pro-business and MGMG agenda because they have tailored their welfare schemes in a way that would appeal to the middle classes and proponents of neoliberalism
Welfare in India: Business, BJP and Middle Class
How does the BJP government that posits itself as neoliberal and pro-business, manage to not only maintain existing welfare schemes but also launch new ones?
Indian federalism and the changing times
The framers of the Constituent Assembly had envisioned a ‘Strong Centre but not weak states.’ In an era of ‘cooperative federalism,’ states are to be the partners in nation-building. Leadership and well as policy implementation seem to be the foundation of federal dynamics during any crisis of such massive proportion.
Login