Tag: politics blog
Dirty politics, dirtier ideology
<!--Uday Deb--> If politics is the art of the possible, ideology is the blueprint for the impossible. When ideology trumps politics, the consequences vary from ... Read More
Open letter to Mr. Raj Thackeray
<!--Uday Deb--> Mr. Thackeray, I write this with a lump in my throat and pain in my heart, because while thousands of our soldiers stand ... Read More
Same Story, New Cast
<!--Uday Deb--> Gen Next netas are leading Bihar assembly contests, but it’s still all caste and faith Nitish Kumar rarely looks wobbly. Even when his ... Read More
Talking Mumbai
<!--Uday Deb--> Language chauvinism is a political strategy for BMC polls. But it can create dangerous social divisions There’s constructive politics, which concerns itself with ... Read More
The taste of erasure: On class, caste and culinary amnesia
<!--Uday Deb--> Growing up in Kolkata in the 1970s, caste was not a big part of my life. You knew it existed of course, from ... Read More
JP, Vajpayee, Morarji, Charan Singh…vs Mrs G
<!--Uday Deb--> On June 25, 1975, hours before Emergency was declared, then oppn bigwigs rallied in Delhi. An eyewitness account of the last protest before ... Read More
Fordoward thinking
<!--Uday Deb--> Iran may still negotiate with US, taking a long view, while skirmishing with Israel. Even if its nuclear infra is damaged, its knowhow ... Read More
Bihar: Kings & kingmakers
<!--Uday Deb--> It’s likely to be another close poll. Neither NDA nor INDIA, partly because their playbooks are similar in some ways, has a winning ... Read More
Census & fairness
<!--Uday Deb--> India is getting ready to do something very big: a census. That’s when the government counts every person in the country. This helps ... Read More
Census, consensus
<!--Uday Deb--> Census officially kicks in with notification. Many questions ahead Formal census operations are set to kick off any day now. Making March 1, ... Read More