Power and PoliticsPrabhu Chawla is the Editorial Director of The New Indian Express group.Having begun as a reporter and spent over 30 years in journalism during which time he has headed The India Today group and The Indian Express as Editor, Chawla has witnessed and recorded dramatic changes in Indian democracy — from the trauma of the Emergency, the pathos of Rajiv Gandhi's rise and fall and the angst of Mandal to the churning of liberalisation and the rise of coalition politics. |
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Martyrs’ self-respect and honour must be adopted as a national mission
Akshay Kumar is Bollywood’s Khiladi No 1. Saina Nehwal is a national khiladi in the audacious arena of sports.
19 Mar 2017
Nation has mandated you for the tallest perch with your much inclusive 2019 mission
Dear Narendrabhai, Victory burnishes halos of leaders with the glow of achievement and dispels the shadows of self-doubt.
12 Mar 2017
Unity of India a casualty of new campus protests supporting divisive agendas
“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.”
05 Mar 2017
Yoga trinity discovers kinship between puja of politics and science of religion
Yoga is the new religion. It is India’s patented art of wellbeing, untouched by the toxic taint of communalism.
26 Feb 2017
Success of regional successors may help RaGa take on NaMo in 2019
Spring is in the political air. The autumn of the patriarchs is fading into the winter of public oblivion.
19 Feb 2017
Collective will of a few to decide Modi’s majority mojo in the war of five states
For the first time, state elections have become a barometer to measure the popularity of a national leader.
12 Feb 2017
The trend of mauling nationalism and tarring genuine history must be reversed
History is not a floating romance. And nationalism is not just a notion. Yet for decades, the liberal narrative has romanticised history at the cost of nationalist notions.
29 Jan 2017
RaGa needs political masons to restore rusted congress edifice before its time is up
Dynasty stared into the abyss and the abyss stared back at the Congress party.
22 Jan 2017
Exception rules the dynastic rule that inheritors shrink their political parties
Rebellion precedes revolution, like one that pre-election Uttar Pradesh witnessed when Akhilesh Yadav revolted against the fraternal designs of his father.
15 Jan 2017
Separated by chasm of national ambitions, Modi and Nitish made for each other
Both political leaders are experts in playing mind games with each other, as well as with their associates
08 Jan 2017
Power players, corporate caliphs, media mavens must promise to be good in 2017
2016 has ended with a bang. 2017 promises to be thunderous. Vows of 2015 were mostly forgotten in the Wows of 2016.
01 Jan 2017
Rahul has become a headline bandit with constant cannonade against Modi
Staying in the news is one way to become the news. Rahul Gandhi has become a headline bandit with constant cannonade against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
25 Dec 2016
Expanding war on black money to shady political funds will burnish PM’s halo
Money makes the mare go, but the nightmare of black money doesn’t go away from politics. Perceptively, there is nothing white in raj neeti.
18 Dec 2016
Jaya moved up from party’s no. 5 in 1988 to no. 1 as India’s most enigmatic woman CM
Jayalalithaa is dead. Long live Amma. From a damsel in distress to the dominant deity of Tamil politics, Jayaram Jayalalithaa’s life was a tale of both victory and heartbreak.
11 Dec 2016
With cash cleanup, Modi the FMPP expands his brand into unexplored markets
Mystery is the imprimatur of any mass leader’s mystique.
27 Nov 2016
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