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Left has failed, but the ‘Right’ does not understand Modi as well

Rahul Roushan - 26 May, 2019

With the left looking irrelevant, the right needs to get its act together.

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PM Modi, I am a Charvaka Indian liberal, and this is my wish list

Kushal Mehra - 26 May, 2019

An atheist Indian liberal writes to PM Modi on what he wishes for in the next five years

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Lok Sabha elections 2019: Congress faltered in building a narrative, Modi-Shah worked towards ground reality

Aarti - 26 May, 2019

Narendra Modi’s aggressive campaigning and Amit Shah’s strategic abilities have given BJP the unprecedented victory

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Scratch a ‘feminist’, find a sexist ‘poet’ who passes off his sexism under the garb of artistic liberty

Nirwa Mehta - 26 May, 2019

An image of a rotten orange was used by a journalist on Instagram to depict a 'woman' who has had 'many lovers'

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The failure of Mahagathbandhan in UP: Have voters finally discarded caste-based politics?

Sanghamitra - 25 May, 2019

Congress ecosystem kept saying that while Mayawati will take Muslim and Dalit votes, Akhilesh will take Yadav votes, and Congress will help defeat BJP by stealing away 'upper caste' votes.

Politics

Congress keeps sinking, but shows no sign of detaching itself from the deadweight of Nehru-Gandhi dynasty

Sanghamitra - 25 May, 2019

In Western UP, 21 of the 22 Congress candidates have lost deposits, meaning they could not even get 1/6th of the total votes polled. Congress stalwarts like Salman Khurshid and Raj Babbar have lost their deposits.

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The difference lies in what holds BJP and Congress ecosystems together

Abhishek Banerjee - 25 May, 2019

What keeps the BJP juggernaut together and drives it? Ideology.

News Reports

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav dismisses party’s TV panellists, asks media houses not to invite any party leader for debates

OpIndia Staff - 24 May, 2019

After the humiliating defeat in Lok Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party not to participate in TV debates, Akhilesh Yadav fires all party panellists

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Shivam Vij is the ‘Kachcha Nimbu’ of ThePrint that gets to bat from both sides

Jinit Jain - 24 May, 2019

Shivam Vij’s flagrantly contradictory articles claim all possible outcomes of an event, maybe so he could later claim that he was right in 50% of the instances.

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