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Vandita Mishra
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What Mayawati’s silence on Sidheeque Kappan case saysPremium Story
February 05, 2023 19:12 IST
Vandita Mishra writes: Her silence shows that among the reasons that hold back the BSP from growing into a larger version of itself, is its cramping of its own reach and stunting of its own ambition
Sun, Feb 05, 2023
Vandita Mishra writes | At the end of the Bharat Jodo YatraPremium Story
January 29, 2023 19:11 IST
Vandita Mishra writes: Rahul Gandhi is just beginning to twist and tweak his own script against an opponent who has done that expertly since 2002
Mon, Jan 30, 2023
Ahead of this Republic Day, Constitution is an unquiet presencePremium Story
January 22, 2023 18:55 IST
The contention around “basic structure” marks the judiciary’s re-assertion of its pre-eminent role as protector and interpreter of the constitutional pact. But at the other end of the face-off is an elected government that is unlikely to let matters rest here
Sun, Jan 22, 2023
Written and Unwritten: Listening to V-P Dhankhar and RSS chief BhagwatPremium Story
January 15, 2023 17:32 IST
Vandita Mishra writes: Dhankhar challenges basic structure; Bhagwat inaugurates a new round of the guessing game
Sun, Jan 15, 2023
Bharat Jodo Yatra and its moving imagesPremium Story
January 08, 2023 19:01 IST
Vandita Mishra writes: A problem the Yatra may face in reaching its intended destination is that even as Rahul Gandhi is moving, so is Narendra Modi
Tue, Jan 10, 2023
Coming up: A new and old yearPremium Story
January 01, 2023 18:41 IST
Vandita Mishra writes: For a glimpse of the old and new in 2023, listen to Rahul Gandhi in Delhi and Home Minister Amit Shah in Bengaluru
Sun, Jan 01, 2023
A prematurely locked up House, a political yatra that stops shortPremium Story
December 25, 2022 18:38 IST
Government is much more to blame than the Opposition for Parliament receding from public view. And yet, there are wider complicities
Mon, Dec 26, 2022
Hooch deaths: A policy failure foretold, Nitish Kumar caught in a trapPremium Story
December 18, 2022 17:08 IST
The hooch deaths in Saran also point to the predicament of Nitish Kumar trapped in his own policy and political flailing.
Sun, Dec 18, 2022
Writ on the Gujarat wall, a message for CongressPremium Story
December 11, 2022 18:26 IST
Congress is up against the idea of the BJP, not just its machine.
Mon, Dec 12, 2022
Melinda French Gates: ‘If you invest in women, it’s been shown time and time again, they invest in everyone else… that’s what lifts up the family’
December 07, 2022 04:50 IST
We work in deep partnership with the government, we let the government lead and we bring our skills to bear, but we’re not setting the agenda. It’s the government’s agenda in health, said Melinda Gates.
Wed, Dec 07, 2022
This Gujarat election may be most significant for the inroads made by AAPPremium Story
December 04, 2022 19:07 IST
This is despite the fact that the conditions that made Delhi and Punjab fertile grounds for the AAP do not obtain in Gujarat.
Wed, Dec 07, 2022
Gujarat elections: Not as close as in 2017, anti-incumbency fails to dent BJP bedrock in SaurashtraPremium Story
November 29, 2022 21:39 IST
“(If I were Rahul) I would have started my Yatra from Somnath... Last time, Congress was fighting for satta (power), now it's for astitva (identity). AAP is fighting for Congress place,” says former BJP CM Vijay Rupani.
Wed, Nov 30, 2022
Battlelines in Surat: Modi rules, BJP is The System, AAP registers — as a knock more than actual arrivalPremium Story
November 27, 2022 20:30 IST
Congress barely visible in Surat, even in adjoining tribal belt, it’s less than the sum of its blinkered parts
Thu, Dec 01, 2022
BJP’s Pasmanda outreach, Rahul vs Savarkar rowPremium Story
November 20, 2022 17:57 IST
BJP strategically casts its net across the faultlines. Congress raises a polarising issue at its own peril
Sun, Nov 20, 2022
EWS quota verdict: The new reservation is a radical break from the pastPremium Story
November 13, 2022 18:38 IST
Vandita Mishra writes: As the meaning and implications of the court verdict sink in, there will be more questions about what it says — and what it doesn’t
Sun, Nov 13, 2022
Look again at Modi’s promise of One Leader, One Double Engine SarkarPremium Story
November 06, 2022 17:44 IST
These two aspects of his promise have been normalised in successive elections, so much so that we do not anymore see how they break from past patterns in the BJP and in the polity, and shape the responses of the BJP’s political opponents.
Sun, Nov 06, 2022
Why the election in Gujarat is catching more and more of our attentionPremium Story
October 30, 2022 18:18 IST
Vandita Mishra writes: The moment of that 2002 violence in Gujarat, like the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya before it, became a defining motif of the BJP campaign ever since, in stated and then, more and more, unstated ways.
Sun, Oct 30, 2022
From the Opinion Editor: Happy Diwali!Premium Story
October 23, 2022 18:53 IST
The governments’ response to the plight of those who lost their kin in Qatar was affirmation of the power of the story. And one more reason, perhaps, to light a lamp this Diwali.
Sun, Oct 23, 2022
Dominance and its discontentsPremium Story
October 16, 2022 18:24 IST
Yadav became the face of the Mandal revolution in Uttar Pradesh, which did not just pose a counterpoint to Mandir, the other big political movement of the ’90s, but which together with it, challenged the already fraying consensus of the Congress-led one-party dominant system.
Sun, Oct 16, 2022
About EC, Kejriwal and Amitabh BachchanPremium Story
October 09, 2022 17:46 IST
Now, in increasingly polarised times, when there is growing pressure on all institutions to pick a side, the EC’s alleged tilt mirrors a larger institutional predicament. How the EC conducts itself is being watched, because it will have implications for the rules of the game.
Sun, Oct 09, 2022
From the Opinion Editor: An election for the Congress partyPremium Story
October 02, 2022 17:34 IST
As the Congress presidential poll hots up, our Opinion Editor gives an insight into the fight between Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge
Sun, Oct 02, 2022
The world view from Kartavya PathPremium Story
September 11, 2022 15:12 IST
PM Modi's inauguration of Kartavya Path and Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra provide a telling glimpse, one after the other, of the big picture from both sides of the political fence.
Sun, Sep 11, 2022
A good day in court, a faint political stirringPremium Story
September 04, 2022 18:29 IST
The Supreme Court, which, for some time now, comes out, more and more, on the side of the government in cases that involve encroachment upon individual rights and freedoms, stepped into the matter this week.
Sun, Sep 04, 2022
Something about the CongressSign In to read
August 28, 2022 18:27 IST
The exit and the letter throw up a fundamental question: If Congress cannot flourish with the Gandhis, can it survive without them?
Sun, Aug 28, 2022
Freedom’s questionsSign In to read
August 21, 2022 18:24 IST
This week, we marked another Independence Day. But freedom’s questions will follow us into the weeks and months to come.
Sun, Aug 21, 2022