Sandip Ghose

When rumours are rife about a Cabinet reshuffle, it would be foolhardy to make a wager on probable new entrants or exits. With Narendra Modi, one can never tell.

Coming ahead of the Uttar Pradesh elections, for which Priyanka Vadra Gandhi is being positioned as a challenger to Yogi Adityanath, Jitin Prasada’s defection is an early sign of revolt by the local leadership.

#IndiaWithIsrael has been trending on social media since the present conflict broke out. Much of it can be attributed to the overt friendship between Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu.

As the Covid rampage continues, people want to see more of the Prime Minister leading the battle from the front.

The silence of the Prime Minister in this hour of national calamity is astounding.

Covid-19 has been a baptism by fire for us as a nation. The biggest gain has been in the rise of our self-confidence and as we reach out to the world with Vaccine Maitri, it is a new India the world is dealing with.

Edappadi K Palaniswami has emerged as a formidable force that is here to stay. It would be a mistake to discount him anymore.

In the nine months since its outbreak and being declared a pandemic, Covid-19 has challenged many paradigms and blown quite a few myths.

There is a major disruption around the corner in the world of media. No one knows the shape of things to come, but it is for certain that content will once again be the king.

With a sustained dip in revenues, the states are justified in seeking relief from the Centre. However, they have to also do their own bit to revive the economy.

Narendra Modi has political equity and people’s mandate for radical reforms. This is an opportunity India cannot afford to miss.

The developments in Rajasthan are particularly disturbing, and reveal a frightening callousness of our political class.

Work from home also means intrusion into the family structure. Counterintuitive as it may seem, home-offices, far from improving work-life balance, may actually end up destroying it.

The Covid war is far from over. India has done well in managing the pandemic so far. But the gains achieved can be easily undone by a few follies.

Visuals of people throwing 'Made in China' TV sets from their balconies and nationalist groups protesting with anti-China banners are useful ‘conflict-time’ optics that the Chinese state-owned media did not miss.

Rural India needs to be protected from the community spread of Covid-19 as our villages are the primary engine of the economy in these trying times.

The threat to undoing the gains of the lockdown is less from the spike in the number of infected cases, and more from the mismanagement of Unlock1.0.

Management of the next phase of Covid-19 is going to be as much of an economic and administrative challenge as a medical one.

Unless a risk can be considered reasonable, it is akin to gambling. Without a fair prospect of survival, very few would be willing to play the game of chance with Covid-19

Aatmanirbhar Bharat is not about being defensive and building protective walls, but embracing the world with pride and confidence.

The short-term salvation lies in 'Bharat', or 'the other India', as it is called.

The lockdown has been a long haul and the end may not be in sight yet. But, the future does not look as bleak.

The future world will likely be more interdependent and willing to trade-off economic prosperity in favour of human life.

There is more to the 21-day national lockdown than meets the eye. It has bought the government a three-week window to get its act together.

From managing internal dissent to international criticism, the Modi-Shah duo left nothing to chance. Its swiftness and energy has thrown Pakistan completely off ground.

The party faces cash crunch to generation clash. And Sonia of 2019 is not the Sonia of 2009.

To expect BJP to have gone slow on Article 370, its pet peeve of 70 years, shows political naïveté. In contrast, the PM moved with meticulous planning, down to his August 7 address.

Investigations at J&K Bank, crackdowns on narcotics smuggling, squeeze on terror funding, Modi-Shah have a clear plan. Why is this making the self-anointed Kashmir experts so uneasy?

Priyanka Gandhi was in news for protesting in Sonbhadra. PC for being 'caught' smoking. Why the two stories are both similar and different.

In case of technical glitches, the people raising concerns are not always at a senior level. Nonetheless, their voice matters and the leader must listen to them.