Opinion: How The Opposition Can Win In 2024

Opinion: How The Opposition Can Win In 2024

Keshava Guha | Thursday July 20, 2023

If INDIA wants to defeat the NDA, it needs either nationally widespread anti-incumbency of a kind not yet evident, or it needs to be able to partially rewind the nationalisation of our politics.

Opinion: Compare Messi To Sachin, Not Ronaldo - Keshava Guha

Opinion: Compare Messi To Sachin, Not Ronaldo - Keshava Guha

Keshava Guha | Saturday December 17, 2022

The Messi-Ronaldo debate is sadly representative of modern football culture.

Opinion: State Elections Offer Big Lessons On How To Counter BJP

Opinion: State Elections Offer Big Lessons On How To Counter BJP

Keshava Guha | Friday December 09, 2022

It is no accident that the one state where the BJP has decisively departed from this strategy is the one in which it has done best, electorally - Uttar Pradesh.

Opinion: What Sort Of PM Will Rishi Sunak Be? We Have Big Clues

Opinion: What Sort Of PM Will Rishi Sunak Be? We Have Big Clues

Keshava Guha | Tuesday November 01, 2022

In the short term, Sunak's appointment has reassured the markets. Whoever the PM, a Conservative defeat in the next election is now all but certain; of the available options, Sunak is probably best placed to limit the scale of the losses.

Opinion: What Shashi Tharoor Has Demonstrated To Congress

Opinion: What Shashi Tharoor Has Demonstrated To Congress

Keshava Guha | Saturday October 22, 2022

Shashi Tharoor emerges from the election with an uncertain future in the Congress (although his remarks in concession indicated an openness to serving under Kharge) but with a good deal of credit.

Opinion: Gandhis Give BJP The Opposition Of Its Dreams

Opinion: Gandhis Give BJP The Opposition Of Its Dreams

Keshava Guha | Sunday October 09, 2022

The Congress and BJP had been the two largest parties at every election since 1991, finishing first (in seats) three times each. But the Congress that Rahul inherited in September 2013 was a far more "national" party than the BJP.

Opinion: Congress And BJP Both Fail To Understand Arvind Kejriwal

Opinion: Congress And BJP Both Fail To Understand Arvind Kejriwal

Keshava Guha | Friday August 26, 2022

How large a challenge AAP poses remains to be seen. But the newness of the challenge is clear.

Opinion: Offering Up Nitish For PM - The Joke's On Us

Opinion: Offering Up Nitish For PM - The Joke's On Us

Keshava Guha | Monday August 15, 2022

A decade ago, Modi and Nitish looked like rivals, and equals.

Opinion: BJP Gains As Others Put Self Before Party, Family Before Self

Opinion: BJP Gains As Others Put Self Before Party, Family Before Self

Keshava Guha | Thursday August 04, 2022

With the Congress no longer an active aspirant for national power, this means that only one leg of the 1952 stool is left standing. Ideologically, there is only one game in our town.

Opinion: What Congress And Kejriwal Get Wrong On Hindutva

Opinion: What Congress And Kejriwal Get Wrong On Hindutva

Keshava Guha | Thursday April 28, 2022

In 2022, Hindutva appears electorally and socially hegemonic.

Opinion: For BJP, Gandhis Are An Asset. It's Kejriwal Who They Fear

Opinion: For BJP, Gandhis Are An Asset. It's Kejriwal Who They Fear

Keshava Guha | Monday March 14, 2022

No Indian Prime Minister has enjoyed a position of greater dominance than Indira Gandhi did in March 1972. That month, Assembly elections were held in 13 states. The score was 13-0 to the Congress

Hijab Row Exposes A Huge Indian Weakness - by Keshava Guha

Hijab Row Exposes A Huge Indian Weakness - by Keshava Guha

Keshava Guha | Tuesday March 08, 2022

The grim likelihood is that for tens of millions of our children, the theft is likely to be permanent - and all we are likely to be able to offer them are free rations and cheap data.

Opinion: Virat Kohli Played To Win - With Him, There Were No Lulls

Opinion: Virat Kohli Played To Win - With Him, There Were No Lulls

Keshava Guha | Monday January 17, 2022

Fifty years later, it is Pataudi, not his statistically-superior successor, Ajit Wadekar, who is remembered. If Test cricket lives another fifty years, it is not going to forget the captaincy of Virat Kohli.

Opinion: Modi's "Aurangzeb" Remark Reveals BJP's Only Strategy For UP

Opinion: Modi's "Aurangzeb" Remark Reveals BJP's Only Strategy For UP

Keshava Guha | Thursday December 23, 2021

The UP election will be one in which voters are not choosing between two different sets of answers to the same questions, but between two different sets of questions.

Mamata Banerjee (+PK) vs Congress Is Much-Needed - Keshava Guha

Mamata Banerjee (+PK) vs Congress Is Much-Needed - Keshava Guha

Keshava Guha | Wednesday December 08, 2021

The Opposition's best chance lies in a coalition as broad as possible, one that includes the Congress, but is not necessarily led by it. Mamata Banerjee may or may not be fit to lead it - but she shouldn't be faulted for trying.

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