It took Union minister Beni Prasad Verma full one year to come out of his hibernation, induced soon after the 2012 assembly elections in the state. We all know why. Read more

The day the Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi mooted a self-appraisal system for the state party leaders, I wondered what would be the parameters on which they would be judged. Read more

The UP bureaucracy couldn’t have asked for more. Having spent five years in a claustrophobic atmosphere under Mayawati, they finally got to breathe free on the historical La Martiniere grounds last Sunday. Read more

The politicians will never campaign for merit in jobs or promotions because rarely do they get elected on merits. Many of them get elected because of the freebies they distribute in the form of goodies or promises. Read more

Of late the national president of the Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav has been hobnobbing with Congress patriarch Narain Dutt Tiwari, whose immense wisdom and wit have got overshadowed by all the bad things in the recent past. Read more

Strange are the ways the Congress functions. It provokes its allies, it pinpricks them. And when they see their own boat rocking, they rush to mollify them. Read more

There has been so much happening in the country. Read more

I met Vivek Kumar, JNU professor in Social Sciences, long time back. I found him to be quite a reasonable guy with BSP leanings. Well, he has the freedom to follow any ideology, any leader. Read more

At the very onset, I agree with the majority opinion that there is no reason to demonise or iconize politicians of today. But it goes on, sometimes in the name of state pride, sometimes in the name of caste or community. Read more

Somehow, the political blackmailing and bargaining at the time the country is electing its President is all in poor taste. If states can put a price, why can’t the voters during elections. Read more