Hindustan Times
An opinion piece I wrote in the Hindustan Times, on Lalu Yadav’s unblemished, secular track record and his utility for the Congress on that count has evoked a mixed response. It’s evident that regardless of whether one likes or hates him, one cannot ignore the RJD leader’s ready wit and rustic charms that make him the best political communicator in business.
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Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, May 25, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Filed under india · Tagged 14th Lok Sabha, congress, Lalu Prasad, MPs, Nitish Kumar, Parliament, Rahul Gandhi, Railways, Rashtrapati Bhawan, RJD leader
So, it was the Political class that was divided, unsure and circumspect. The people of India were one in what they wanted out of Elections 2009. Little surprise then that even the Congress’s poll managers, from Sonia Gandhi downwards, received the outcome with disbelief. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, May 18, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged congress, elections, Rahul Gandhi
Let’s talk this week about India and its awesome festival of democracy. For nearly a month now, airwaves on the Attari side of Indo-Pak border have been clogged with averments, claims and individual assertions by a Party A or a Coalition B of being fairer than its rivals. The UPA told us as to why it must be re-elected, the NDA dwelt on the imperative of change and the Left-inspired Third Front drove home its importance in a sudden death play-off. Certain pre-conditions and demands on which some bit—and better— players predicated their post-poll loyalties seemed outlandish. I read between the lines and squeezed some political meaning out of them. Here it goes… Read more
(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Advani, elections, handshake, india, Ludhiana, NDA, Nitish Kumar, politics
Middle class Pakistanis have always been enamored of the scale and substance of Indian democracy. But the ongoing campaign hasn’t engaged their attention barring, of course, stock references to the plight of Muslims, Naxal violence and the shameful jooton-ki-barsaat.
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(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, May 4, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Filed under World · Tagged bjp, congress, elections, gujarat, india, Narendra Modi, Pakistan
