The prime minister and his cabinet will be compelled to do what governments in other democracies must: Listen to criticism from citizens and tolerate it and even learn from it. In doing so, perhaps they can also get a laugh out of the material, as many of us so often do, notes Aakar Patel.
Urvish Kothari wonders why the political experts who had earlier expressed doubts about whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will return to power this time have suddenly started assuming that his victory is a foregone conclusion
Urvish Kothari looks beyond the myth of Narendra Modi and highlights the chinks in the Gujarat chief minister's armour.
Urvish Kothari on the Gujarat chief minister's desperate search for tangible issue that could swing the voters his way.
Our twisted minds may have justified the cruelty and inhumanity that Gujarat was witness to in 2002. A decade later, do we feel the need to reconsider our support for what we thought was 'right' back then, asks Urvish Kothari.
='The Gujarat results show a wide chasm between the issues facing the common people and the way the BJP engineers electoral successes.'
One of the most glaring contradictions of the more than decade-long Narendra Modi regime in Gujarat is the sad fate of Gujarati medium schools, says Urvish Kothari
The movement for reservations for Patels of Gujarat is full of contradictions and paradoxes, says Urvish Kothari.
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