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Bharti, Birla public spat with Delhi cops gives wrong message
Loss of faith in a sabotaged system is the main cause for the emergence of the AAP and their formation of the government.
Modi's Mentors: Vasantbhai, the man who taught Modi his 'principles'
Before he was 24, Modi was made the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Pracharak for Ahmedabad city. This was in the period leading up to Indira Gandhi's Emergency, and the Navnirman agitation in Gujarat. Vasantrao Gajendragadkar was Modi's mentor in these days.
Is AAP's cadre recruitment happening way too fast?
AAP has an identity crisis today, they started as an agitator and suddenly they were asked to be an administrator.
India needs Rahul, not Modi as PM
India needs a young PM whose actions are indicative of his anti-corruption stance. We need someone who just doesn't give hollow speeches but someone who has actually taken a stand against corruption.
Rahul's emphasis on corruption is frankly insulting
His repeated emphasis on corruption completely ignores the massive corruption that Mamnmohan Singh presided on with indulgence, looking the other way for nearly TEN years.
Now that AAP has tasted power, it could just self destruct
If the internal contradictions within AAP are not self-resolved, then it will likely split itself into two parties
AAP has a single agenda and will not last
While one can expect AAP supporters to sing praises of the party in question and claim that they will sweep India, it is yet to be seen if they can even govern Delhi effectively.
It is too early to write the obituary of AAP
It is too early to write obituary for the fledgling party though the writer is not way off the mark in pointing out various contradictions and inconsistencies.
The math works against Narendra Modi becoming India's next PM
Even AB Vajpayee could not bring 200 seats at the height of his popularity and formed the government with 20 other parties.
Rise of AAP is bad news for Modi, BJP? Think again
the AAP will trouble the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections much less than it did in Delhi.
In defence of Bedi: Arvind Kejriwal not a team man
He dumped his mentor; his relations with his colleagues in the Jan Andolan including Bedi, Anna and Ramdev Baba are fragile
Narendra Modi's mentor: Madhukarrao Bhagwat
In this chapter of his book Jyotipunj, Modi writes fondly about meeting him at age 20, and staying with him during his third year of RSS training.
Why is Modi dangerous for India? Mr PM, please elaborate
I think it was incumbent on Singh, who has been prime minister for a decade and finance minister for five years to elaborate.
Modi doesn't have the expertise to run a coalition govt
What does Modi know about running a coalition like NDA ? Dr Singh's legacy has to be measured in terms of two consecutive terms.
Modi's mentors: Kashinath Bagwade, the personal discipline guru
Narendra Modi has revealed his inspirations in a work he wrote after he became chief minister in 2001. The book, written in Gujarati, is called Jyotipunj. In this chapter from his book of short biographies, being translated for the first time, Narendra Modi profiles the man who offered him lessons in personal discipline, disaster management and administration.
AAP should go national: Voting for them is voting oneself into power
Also for those hung up on the fact that AAP has no experience in administration, what do the Congress and BJP have experience of? The art of stealing from treasury and making it sound like schemes?
Difficult to believe Kejriwal will be a success in the political arena
Delhi may be a one off exception and it is the reason why he is foisting himself on Delhi with Congress support.
Why bureaucrats won't back Kejriwal right away
Bureaucrats are not likely to come running to join Kejriwal.
Modi's mentors: Pappaji, the doctor who adopted Sangh-think, Sangh-action
In this chapter of his book Jyotipunj, Narendra Modi pays tribute to the dentist who first expanded the RSS in Gujarat, and took its cultural message to the tribals.
Why Congress' withdrawal threat akin to a bride's family mentality
A breakage of an alliance at engagement stage is better than a divorce after marriage.
Is Rahul Gandhi late in diagnosing India's key problems?
The degeneration of politics in this country is too grave and the morality has sunk to lowest depths beyond redemption.
What we learn from Maharashtra govt's handling of the Adarsh scam report
Had the commission's report been accepted, Sushilkumar Shinde, currently the Union Home Minister, would either have to resign or be sacked.
Can AAP fight the mighty politician-bureaucrat nexus?
Nowhere in the country, in fact, is the story different, since the wicked politician-administration nexus is universal all over India and pervades from top to bottom.
BJP needs to address issues faced by urban voters
If the BJP doesn't address real problems — price rise, inflated electricity bills, inflation — the middle class faces in cities, they would fare poorly with urban voters.
The mentors who taught Modi his management skills
According to Modi himself, his management training has come from a management school that he thinks is as good as Harvard and Stanford.
Why Anna Hazare should change his stand on AAP
Anna should change his stand soon and make everyone a winner in this battle against misrule and corruption. Otherwise the "aam aadmi" will be the loser.
Will corrupt clerks levy 'Lokpal charge' to get your work done?
AAP will find it tough to control internal corruption when it grows bigger in the days to come.
Well played: AAP has pushed BJP, Cong into a corner in Delhi
All criticism of AAP’s reluctance to form a government, if they are from the ordinary people arises from the fact that it is being seen from the conventional prism: government formation by hook or crook.