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Opinion: How The Opposition Can Win In 2024
If INDIA wants to defeat the NDA, it needs either nationally widespread anti-incumbency of a kind not yet evident, or it needs to be able to partially rewind the nationalisation of our politics.
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Opinion: Compare Messi To Sachin, Not Ronaldo - Keshava Guha
The Messi-Ronaldo debate is sadly representative of modern football culture.
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Opinion: State Elections Offer Big Lessons On How To Counter BJP
It is no accident that the one state where the BJP has decisively departed from this strategy is the one in which it has done best, electorally - Uttar Pradesh.
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Opinion: What Sort Of PM Will Rishi Sunak Be? We Have Big Clues
In the short term, Sunak's appointment has reassured the markets. Whoever the PM, a Conservative defeat in the next election is now all but certain; of the available options, Sunak is probably best placed to limit the scale of the losses.
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Opinion: What Shashi Tharoor Has Demonstrated To Congress
Shashi Tharoor emerges from the election with an uncertain future in the Congress (although his remarks in concession indicated an openness to serving under Kharge) but with a good deal of credit.
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Opinion: Gandhis Give BJP The Opposition Of Its Dreams
The Congress and BJP had been the two largest parties at every election since 1991, finishing first (in seats) three times each. But the Congress that Rahul inherited in September 2013 was a far more "national" party than the BJP.
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Opinion: Congress And BJP Both Fail To Understand Arvind Kejriwal
How large a challenge AAP poses remains to be seen. But the newness of the challenge is clear.
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Opinion: Offering Up Nitish For PM - The Joke's On Us
A decade ago, Modi and Nitish looked like rivals, and equals.
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Opinion: BJP Gains As Others Put Self Before Party, Family Before Self
With the Congress no longer an active aspirant for national power, this means that only one leg of the 1952 stool is left standing. Ideologically, there is only one game in our town.
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Opinion: What Congress And Kejriwal Get Wrong On Hindutva
In 2022, Hindutva appears electorally and socially hegemonic.
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Opinion: For BJP, Gandhis Are An Asset. It's Kejriwal Who They Fear
No Indian Prime Minister has enjoyed a position of greater dominance than Indira Gandhi did in March 1972. That month, Assembly elections were held in 13 states. The score was 13-0 to the Congress
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Hijab Row Exposes A Huge Indian Weakness - by Keshava Guha
The grim likelihood is that for tens of millions of our children, the theft is likely to be permanent - and all we are likely to be able to offer them are free rations and cheap data.
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Opinion: Virat Kohli Played To Win - With Him, There Were No Lulls
Fifty years later, it is Pataudi, not his statistically-superior successor, Ajit Wadekar, who is remembered. If Test cricket lives another fifty years, it is not going to forget the captaincy of Virat Kohli.
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Opinion: Modi's "Aurangzeb" Remark Reveals BJP's Only Strategy For UP
The UP election will be one in which voters are not choosing between two different sets of answers to the same questions, but between two different sets of questions.
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Mamata Banerjee (+PK) vs Congress Is Much-Needed - Keshava Guha
The Opposition's best chance lies in a coalition as broad as possible, one that includes the Congress, but is not necessarily led by it. Mamata Banerjee may or may not be fit to lead it - but she shouldn't be faulted for trying.
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In Farmers vs Modi, A Big Lesson For Congress - by Keshava Guha
The farmers have illustrated that a maxim known to be true in electoral politics can also apply to the realm of social mobilisation: when the Modi-Shah BJP is confronted with a truly committed opponent, it is far from invincible.
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Opinion: Modi's Domination - What We Often Overlook
Modi has become synonymous not merely with his own administration, but with the Republic as a whole. His command over his party is total; he faces a weak and fragmented opposition.
