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Polls 2011: What happened in Kerala?
The 2011 Assembly Election of Kerala has been one hell of a roller coaster ride against the usual trend in Kerala politics. Traditionally, the people of Kerala always voted for an alternative government very decisively every five years irrespective of their performance in government during the last three decades. While...
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Signature Campaign against draconian provisions of Communal Violence Bill
Thanks to the initiative of our fellow CRI commentator Manohar Seetharam an online petition against the draconian provisions of Communal Violence bill is now up and running at http://www.petitiononline.com/cvb_nac/ Request all our readers to participate in the campaign. This shocking piece of communally bigoted legislation needs to be oppossed tooth and nail by...
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DMK – What now?
Electoral defeats are as common as successes to political parties. One never writes off any political force so easily. Like life it does its best to survive and keep things going. Still the defeat of DMK in this election is unique in that it has come at a most inopportune...
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Communal Violence Bill: A Conspiracy by NAC
The focus of this post is one particular bill drafted by NAC called the “Prevention of Communal and Taegeted Violence(Access to Justice and Reparations),2011”1. There is currently another version of this bill currently pending in the Parliament.2. Just one reading of the bill is sufficient for one to be concerned about the fallout of having such an act and seriusly question the mindset and approach of the members of NAC.
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TN Voters have the last laugh
The mighty voter in my home state Tamilnadu has spoken loud and clear… and in fact has had the last laugh. The deafening noise of this loud laughter will have its effect most on three places… One- in the homes of the Karunanidhi clan (am not saying in the homes...
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Political economy of Corruption-A real TN case study
Groundswell of popular support for Hazare movement reflects an increasing anger against corruption that threatens to eat in to the vitals of our society. Moral indignation manufactured by the middle class protestors, manifested in sloganeering like “Mera Neta Chor hai”, briefly threatened to become the national war cry during the interregnum...
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The Unstoppable Rise and Rise of Bengal’s Left
In the beginning there was only left…. “I still believe that there is no viable alternative to Left Front in Bengal today”, thundered a proud Marxist intellectual after Left Front won its mandate with an unexpectedly huge margin in 2006. Mamata Banerjee, the strongest rival of CPIM, bitterly complained about...
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An Ode to Karunanidhi
Even as Tamil Nadu rejoices (including me) at the fall of the DMK government (quite possibly the most corrupt ever in TN’s history), it is time to pay our respects to arguably one of the greatest political brains of India in the 20th Century. Oh yes, MuKa is definitely not...
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TN 2011: Towards a post Dravidian era?
The DMK has just been handed one of its biggest defeats. Political analysts say the worst is yet to come for the pioneer Dravidian party. Karunanidhis’ list of woes almost appears endless: corruption cases, family bickering and a generally vindictive political opponent with a huge mandate in power. This is...
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Assembly Election Results 2011 – Live!!
A Center Right Town Hall live event produced by @CenterOfRight via CoveritLive to go over the live results of the assembly elections held in Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal as they come in. This an @Offstumped initiative – co-hosted by Centre Right India. Do join us. 0800 hrs...
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A primer on West Bengal Assembly Election 2011
Six years is a long time in politics. I don’t know how many remember today that in the 2006 West Bengal state election Mamata’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) aligned with BJP (and few other small parties) to form a Mahajot (United Front) with an avowed objective to defeat the Left Front(LF)....
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Kerala 2011: The Hand, Lotus and VS
Much water has flowed since the previous post analyzing the Kerala polls scenario and this one. Many flip flops and incidents later the political winds in Gods Own Country still have the same smell and tone. There are still no “Waves”. The talk has now shifted from “Waves” to “undercurrents” and therefore it becomes a minefield for any armchair analyst to assess the situation correctly.
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TN State Assembly Election Podcast
As the campaign on TN assembly election closed yesterday and voting happens tommorow, CRI Associate Editor Prasanna has a fascinating 60 minute conversation with Badri Seshadri and K Balakrishnan on the issues and likely outcome of TN Assembly elections.
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Kerala 2011 : Understanding the Communist – Communal state
This post is part of CRI Elections 2011 Series. CRI commentariat will be extensively analysing the series of state elections – Assam, West Benga, Tamil Nadu and Kerala – scheduled for the year 2011 Come April 13th, the electorate of Kerala would rush in herds (pun intended) to the 2200...