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Political funding in India is neither fair nor transparent
December 25, 2025 1:38 pm
There is a need for intervention to ensure healthy electoral competition and to diversify the sources of political funding. Otherwise, it is always the citizens at large who end up paying for the costs of their democracy
Inside Track: Perception test
September 08, 2024 9:11 am
Electoral politics is often more perception than reality. So if PM Narendra Modi is looking slightly jaded and faded at the start of his “historic third term in office’’, it is because the optics that favoured him in the past are now working against him.
Why an ancient Greek tragedy has resonance in politics today — in India and beyond
June 19, 2024 11:05 am
In Aeschylus’ 'Persians', Xerxes though defeated, was not dethroned. He went on to rule for another decade or more. But the spirit of freedom and democracy set alight by that struggle lived on for more than a century
How India can prevent unnatural political alliances
July 18, 2023 9:43 am
Instead of the first-past-the-post system, voters should be able to choose Many of the Above from multiple candidates and parties could end need for opportunistic electoral alliances
Out of My Mind: Transition times
May 18, 2014 9:00 am
It is within possibility that Modi may transform the nature of Indian politics, for the better and not for the worse as liberals fear.
Populism doesn’t win polls
April 08, 2014 11:20 pm
Freebies and quotas have little impact on turnout or a party’s electoral fortunes.
Need for a cut-off age in electoral politics: Ashwani
April 07, 2014 12:36 am
He said it was important to ensure political debate was anchored on “governance and developmental issues.
Fast-track trials of legislators, wrap in a year: Supreme Court
March 11, 2014 9:14 am
Crime & politics: Bench orders daily hearings, wants delays reported to HC.
Pakistan lift ban on Sharif running for office
July 17, 2009 11:11 am
Former Pak premier Sharif had been banned from office after being found guilty of hijacking the then army chief Pervez Musharraf's plane in 1999.
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