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Sagarika Ghose
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Who’s afraid of coalition governments?
Majority governments are poor performers. Massive national mandates can lead to executive over-reach and misuse of State power at all levels. A hefty mandate is often over-read as advance public obedience to anything and everything a leader may choose to do and can be a licence to weaken democracy.
02 May 2024, 23:41 IST
Who’s afraid of coalition governments?
02 May 2024, 23:41 IST
Even visible women find it hard to break the glass ceiling
Women in politics face many prejudices, and gender equality and empowerment are still a long way off
02 April 2024, 22:53 IST
Even visible women find it hard to break the glass ceiling
02 April 2024, 22:53 IST
The right to protest is fundamental
The Modi government appears ignorant of the constitutional guarantee that the right to protest flows from the right to free speech and the right to life and liberty.
28 February 2024, 23:51 IST
The right to protest is fundamental
28 February 2024, 23:51 IST
An Opposition-mukt Bharat spells doom for democracy
Those who did not vote for a government are citizens with just as many civic rights as those who did. Their voices and representatives must not be silenced.
05 February 2024, 21:30 IST
An Opposition-mukt Bharat spells doom for democracy
05 February 2024, 21:30 IST
The politics of spectacle
Modi is a master of the grand political spectacle.
08 January 2024, 19:13 IST
The politics of spectacle
08 January 2024, 19:13 IST
A story of two Indias
North and south India are on different political trajectories, and the divergence may well reflect in the Lok Sabha polls of 2024.
05 December 2023, 21:06 IST
A story of two Indias
05 December 2023, 21:06 IST
‘Vishwaguru’, take a moral position
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often spoken of India being ‘Vishwaguru’. If India is to live up to that, our foreign policy needs to take a higher moral position than it has in the Modi years.
03 November 2023, 22:15 IST
‘Vishwaguru’, take a moral position
03 November 2023, 22:15 IST
Constantly seeking enemies
For the government to acquire greater coherence and rationality, this political schizophrenia -- of one day bombast, next day silence; of harsh hostile language followed by honeyed tones -- must end. For India to take its place among the world’s leading democracies, the government and its leader needs to speak in a more rational, balanced way.
07 October 2023, 02:40 IST
Constantly seeking enemies
07 October 2023, 02:40 IST
Gandhi for the world, Godse for India?
The Principle of Political Convenience
11 September 2023, 22:27 IST
Gandhi for the world, Godse for India?
11 September 2023, 22:27 IST
Recalling India’s 10 best parliamentarians
PRS Legislative Research estimates that the 17th Lok Sabha could record the lowest number of sitting days since 1952.
07 August 2023, 22:12 IST
Recalling India’s 10 best parliamentarians
07 August 2023, 22:12 IST
