Indian Left at its Moment of Truth
Political Commentary by Ravikumar Pillai File Photo of Sita Ram Yechury at CPIM Party Congress The Indian Left, a loose term for the...
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- Sep 10
- 2 min
India’s Nari Shakti Is Just a Slogan - Who Cares?
Ravikumar Pillai Female Workforce Participation is Key to Progress For a long time, I have been thinking about the deep-rooted hypocrisy...
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- Sep 9
- 4 min
Can India Crack the Jobs Drought?
Too Many People Chasing Too Few Jobs - The Long Wait Gets on the Nerve Despite clocking one of the highest economic growth in today’s...
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- Aug 16
- 2 min
Can Kamala Trump Don?
With two and a half months to go for the 2024 Polls in the United States, these are still early days to size up the campaign and...
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- Aug 7
- 2 min
The Hard Lessons Bangladesh Teaches India
political analysis by Ravikumar Pillai Mohammed Younis on the cusp of making history Bangladesh's ongoing chaos, mayhem and brutalities...
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- Jul 21
- 2 min
Whom shall we credit for the remaking of RaGa?
The first Budget Session of the Eighteenth Lok Sabha begins on Monday, 22 July. It is a new beginning, an unexpected one because the mood...
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- Jul 10
- 2 min
Reinventing Indian Federal Democratic Nuances
For the past ten years from 2014 to 2024, Indian democracy was in a limbo of sorts. Democracy by name and autocracy by choice. Never...
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- Jun 26
- 2 min
Rahul Gandhi’s Make-over Moment
Hearty Welcome to the New LOP Today is no ordinary day. In the contemporary democratic narratives of India, this day needs to be marked...
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- Jun 25
- 3 min
HOW TO WRIGGLE OUT OF THE NEET CONTROVERSY NEATLY?
A Painful Waiting Game Indeed - NEET Aspirants and Anxious Parents India is too complex a nation that the simplistic solution of ‘One...
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- Jun 7
- 2 min
BJP’s Bench Strength – The Alternatives to Modi
Gadkari and Shivraj - Will one of them make it? Having lost its script to craft a massive victory by playing the old tune of divisive...
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- Jun 6
- 3 min
Making Sense of the 2024 Election Outcome
Modi, Naidu, Nitish - Can the Triple Engine Sarkar Work? It is time to celebrate democracy. It is time to feel proud that our democratic...
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- May 28
- 2 min
Elections 2024 - Which Way the Wind Blows?
Voters in Queue The Election Commission has officially banned all Election Surveys till the conclusion of the polls on the first of June....
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- May 27
- 1 min
Agenda for New Govt: The Employment Challenges
The election fever is about to be over. We will have a new Government on 4th June. Likely, it will be Modi 3.0. There are multiple...
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- May 21
- 2 min
What is in store for India on 4th June
We are just two stops away from the end of the journey. The much-awaited dawn on 4th June is premised upon an unexpected and...
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- May 19
- 3 min
Kerala is Changing -Silently but Surely
Here is a peep into the undercurrent of social and economic changes currently on in God’s Own Country. These changes are a long haul but...
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- May 4
- 1 min
2024 Elections - The Charms of Speculation
We Indians love suspense thrill and imagination. That is why we are mad after IPL, stock market tracking and spending time on political...
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- Apr 30
- 2 min
The Calm Before the Storm
The 2024 elections progress from one phase to another in the true-to-character Indian legacy of hurtling along in a bullock cart. The...
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- Apr 18
- 2 min
The real and shadow fights in the National Elections- 2024?
If you think that India’s Election 2024 is a T20 cricket match played out in true gentlemanly fashion you are far removed from reality....
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- Mar 13
- 2 min
Unleashing the Power of Creative Writing: A Journey of Self-Expression and Exploration
In a world inundated with information, where every corner is filled with noise and distraction, creative writing stands as a beacon of...
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