Asian Lite News Archive

Category: COLUMNS

  • The Real Test Begins Now for NaMo

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     Ashok Tandon, former media advisor of AB Vajpayee, says Modi accomplished the impossible but the real test starts now   Narendra Modi has proved in letter and spirit what Napoleon Bonaparte said: “Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools… Victory belongs to the most persevering.” The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate has made…

  • Demise of Congress, caste politics

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    Saeed Naqvi analyses the Indian elections – Congress and caste parties decimates, whither Indian Muslims Over 180 million Indian Muslims will stand on the margin looking stunned and petrified, watching Narendra Modi and the BJP make history and colour the nation with saffron. What a predicament for the world’s second largest Muslim population which equals…

  • Modi just got it right

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    “Ab ki baar Modi sarkaar” seems to have sailed through the imagination of the Indian electorate across this vast country as the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA trounced the Congress to its all-time lowest tally, said analysts and common people alike. “Modi raised huge expectations regarding employment and governance, which evoked an overwhelming response from the…

  • The election BJP could not lose

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    By Amulya Ganguli  Even if there is little doubt that a wave in favour of Narendra Modi has swept the country, except in parts of the south and the north-east, what is undeniable is that it was an election which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could not lose. The reason is that the Congress made…

  • Singh’s legacy a mixed bag?

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    History will be kinder to me, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated at his final press conference earlier this year. As he ends his decade-long tenure as head of two successive UPA governments, his stock as a middle class hero stood severely diminished due to a floundering economy, shrinking opportunities and the acts of omission and…

  • Kegriwal and AAP here to stay

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    As the nation waits with bated breath for the results of the just concluded mammoth nine-stage election, one clear winner is already on display. And that is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its radically fresh and welcome electoral strategy. It is of little importance if it can send any member to parliament. To realize…