The writer is former national spokesperson of the Congress.
March 05,2025 13:16:45 PM
Time and again, Congress has failed to set the agenda, communicate effectively. Its most striking failure has been its inability to articulate nuanced positions on foreign policy and national security issues
Wed, Mar 05, 2025November 25,2024 17:19:02 PM
If the Congress needs any inspiration for the future, it should look at its fellow partner, Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana Soren. Jailed, harassed, and facing a vicious hate campaign, a fabricated charge of forced demographic change on account of Bangladeshi infiltration from a take-no-prisoners BJP, the JMM leadership remained resilient.
Tue, Nov 26, 2024October 08,2024 16:56:08 PM
The October 8 election verdict could have provided the reinvigorated opposition, led by an unusually resolute Congress, the second booster shot after a determined fightback in the Lok Sabha elections. But it turned out to be a mirage. Will the BJP see a potential crack, a cleavage that could lead to its potential resurrection after a dreary run?
Wed, Oct 09, 2024September 14,2024 07:30:54 AM
Gandhi’s speeches and interactions highlight how the PM has yet to hold a press conference, a non-choreographed interaction
Sat, Sep 14, 2024August 14,2024 13:20:40 PM
The ILO had warned that the youth unemployment crisis, especially after the pandemic, was a ticking ‘time bomb’, more so in lower-middle-income countries. Politicians cutting across partisan trenches in India will be profusely naïve to ignore the lessons from other countries like Bangladesh
Wed, Aug 14, 2024June 02,2024 14:12:13 PM
Economic woes, voter fatigue, corruption – there are many reasons for ruling alliance to be wary of result on June 4. But the Opposition has also made strategic errors
Mon, Jun 03, 2024May 03,2024 13:27:40 PM
Smriti Irani now has bragging rights; Rahul copped out of a contest — this is what she will repeat ad nauseum. If the Gandhi siblings had jumped in together, it would have provided a huge force multiplier for the INDIA bloc
Fri, May 03, 2024June 24,2023 13:54:10 PM
BJP underestimates the Patna Summit of opposition parties at its own peril
Wed, Jun 28, 2023February 24,2023 14:34:08 PM
Sanjay Jha writes: My former colleague Pawan Khera is a victim of a culture in which news is infotaiment and spokespersons have to become actors.
Fri, Feb 24, 2023February 08,2023 14:13:24 PM
Sanjay Jha writes: Government is wrong in bludgeoning discussions in Parliament on the Adani meltdown. The affair points to cronyism, raises questions about regulatory bodies and shows corporate governance in poor light
Fri, Feb 10, 2023November 03,2022 17:27:46 PM
New Congress president must intervene in Sachin Pilot vs Ashok Gehlot. Gehlot precipitated an unsavoury, unwarranted crisis in Congress and now seems to be hinting at closeness to the BJP
Fri, Nov 04, 2022September 30,2022 17:59:59 PM
Bottom-line: Congress needs a president who can help it win the 2024 general elections, and as many state elections before that. What it does not need is a pallbearer of bland homilies and darbari subservience
Thu, Oct 06, 2022August 26,2022 17:39:55 PM
Rahul Gandhi must take the blame for barricading himself from his well-meaning party colleagues. But Congress can still upset BJP applecart
Mon, Aug 29, 2022May 08,2021 03:12:33 AM
Sanjay Jha writes: Centre, PM must be held accountable for the current Covid wave.
Sat, May 08, 2021May 20,2020 01:27:07 AM
The government has belatedly woken up to the naked truth: India is failing both the medical emergency test and self-destructing by creating an economic washout.
Wed, May 20, 2020December 18,2017 18:48:33 PM
Unemployed youth, short-changed small traders, wiped out SME entrepreneurs and desperate farmers have exposed the disingenuous fault-lines of this oversold campaign that so hoodwinked us all in 2014.
Mon, Dec 18, 2017December 14,2017 18:01:40 PM
How does the airing of an interview by one political leader, and not another, amount to influencing the vote?
Thu, Dec 14, 2017September 12,2017 17:05:46 PM
Rahul’s candid admission that the Congress, in it’s second-term, allowed a false sense of invulnerability leading to political hubris is refreshingly honest. He is aware of his dynastic baggage on which he is perpetually questioned. But as he has also said, the headstart does not guarantee assured triumphs.
Tue, Sep 12, 2017February 28,2015 00:50:43 AM
Change is not easy, and the Congress flirts dangerously with obsolescence if it cannot reinvent urgently.
Sat, Feb 28, 2015April 30,2010 23:14:07 PM
Dad,I know who is going to win the finals today,said my daughter. No you dont,I said,dismissing her with the same casual flourish with which...
Fri, Apr 30, 2010December 02,2005 00:00:00 AM
I suffered from an acute childhood obsession, almost a fetish — love for the smell of petrol. It made be delirious, it had a macho arom...
Fri, Dec 02, 2005May 05,2004 00:00:00 AM
When voters go to the polling booth in Allahabad tomorrow, chances are very few of them will be aware that their candidate, the erudite Dr M...
Wed, May 05, 2004April 17,2004 00:00:00 AM
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it at election times. Mark Twain (1835-1910) ‘‘Mu...
Sat, Apr 17, 2004July 28,1997 00:00:00 AM
Mexico, said the Cassandras. NYSE, here we come, screamed the die-hard optimist. As the initial euphoria over the Tarapore committee abates...
Mon, Jul 28, 1997