Hindustan Times
I don’t know if you saw the results of the Headlines Today poll on the Gujarat Assembly election. The poll was conducted a couple of weeks ago and the results were released on October 4. The election is still some time away and the pollsters did their work before the campaign got into full swing. So yes, it is possible to argue that these responses – and therefore, the results – are premature and that things will change significantly between now and election day. Read more
(130 votes, average: 2.12 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, October 5, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bal Thackeray, BJP, Congress, Gujarat, Hindustan Times, Jagan Reddy, Mamata Banerjee, manmohan singh, Medium term, Narendra Modi, NDA, Nitish Kumar, UPA, Vir Sanghvi
My favourite saying about Indian politics is that all logical analysis about our politics fails because there is no logic to Indian politics. That at least, is the excuse I use when I get things wrong – as I frequently do. (For instance, I was sure that A.B. Vajpayee was going to be re-elected and was startled when the Congress won.) Read more
(21 votes, average: 3.19 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, June 29, 2012 at 9:33 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Hindustan Times, Indian politics, Mamata Banerjee, Pranab Mukherjee, Presidential election, Vir Sanghvi
How significant is the President of India – in political, rather than ceremonial, terms?
If you were to go by the tenure of the current incumbent: not very. Read more
(21 votes, average: 3.95 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Filed under India · Tagged APJ Abdul Kalam, Hindustan Times, Mamata Banerjee, Medium term, Mulayam Singh Yadav, news, pa sangma, Pranab Mukherjee, Pratibha Patil, president, rasthrapati bhavan, Sonia Gandhi, Vir Sanghvi
How can you tell when a government is in crisis? There are the obvious ways, I suppose. You can tell that a government is in trouble when it is on the verge of losing its majority. When its coalition appears to be cracking up. When its MPs begin to revolt. And so on. Read more
(20 votes, average: 3.8 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, March 30, 2012 at 8:47 pm
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