M. R. Venkatesh
The writer is former Chief Political Coordinator at The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy.
BJP’s Elusive Search in Tamil Nadu
The BJP’s strategy to raise its vote share in Tamil Nadu to 16 per cent by enlisting the support of smaller regional parties and caste-based groups ...
DMK’s Azhagiri Riddle: Realpolitik or Bravado Overdone?
The line between bravado and pyrrhic victory is slender, more so in the realm of political melodrama in India. The latest case in point is the ...
Leadership vacuum feeding India’s right-wing politics: Dipankar Gupta
Sociologist Prof. Dipankar Gupta re-conceptualises Indian citizenship, rooting it strongly in equality at a basic level, wider than a political right ...
Thinkers at Jaipur Literature Festival hope for a better political discourse
Eminent Indian and international thinkers shared their varied views on the present wave of change in India's political climate. In the run-up to the ...
Thinkers at Jaipur Literature Festival hope for a better political discourse
Eminent Indian and international thinkers shared their varied views on the present wave of change in India's political climate. In the run-up to the ...
'Indian democracy has improved since globalisation' - Meghnad Desai
Indian-born British Economist Lord Meghnad Desai held globalisation 'good', and indicated it had improved Indian democracy, in a candid interview with ...
Event report: India at the Crossroads (includes video)
The political landscape of India is changing and the urge for a new dawn is much more now than ever before. This passion for change emerged as the ...
Exclusivism will not work in India
Senior Congress leader Karan Singh says an exclusivist cultural construct is alien to India and not valid even within Hinduism, in an exclusive chat ...
Sri Lanka: Chidambaram’s Brave Bid to Clear Congress of anti-Tamil Image
Seeking to deconstruct a much-laboured criticism against the Congress in Tamil Nadu and at the national level for being 'anti-Tamil' in its approach ...
Defending the Constitution: No Omnibus Protection for Convicted Lawmakers
Wilting under the strong pressure of public opinion and a dramatic late intervention by Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, the Union Cabinet has ...
The Rise of Telangana
A high-voltage political battle has broken out on the Telangana statehood issue in Andhra Pradesh in the run-up to the 2014 general elections. M.R.
Colloquium: Secularism and Nation Building
As The Hindu Centre has emphasised in its mission statement, we see ourselves not just as a discourse enabler or a marketplace of ideas but do intend ...