Namo Politics
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‘Insecure megalomaniac’: Opposition targets Modi for rapid transit trains being named as Namo Bharat
The BJP has been using ‘Namo’, an acronym for Narendra Modi, to refer to the prime minister during election campaigns.
Scroll Staff
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Saba Naqvi: The Narendra Modi cult moves up another level
By naming a stadium after himself and putting his image on Covid-19 certificates, we see the transition to making him the symbol and emblem of the nation-state.
Saba Naqvi
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What Modi’s Central Vista plan says about his vision of a New India
It’s the Gujarat model, scaled up.
Amrita Shah
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Thriller: A serial killer is on the loose, murdering India’s famous nuclear scientists one by one
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These innovations have made Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal the truck drivers’ favourite since 1967
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View from Nepal: India’s reaction to new currency note betrays patronising outlook to its neighbour
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Contradictory documentary demands of CAA violate right to legal identity
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Memoir: Human rights lawyer Nandita Haksar recalls her understanding of feminism as a young woman
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Ram Guha: Modi personality cult runs contrary to BJP’s own objections to worship of individuals
It shows why Ambedkar was right to be deeply worried about the dangers to Indian democracy from blind hero-worship.
Ramachandra Guha
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‘Narendra Modi remains by far the most popular national figure in Indian politics,’ finds Pew study
‘The public’s positive assessment of Modi is buoyed by growing contentment with the Indian economy,’ the survey by the American think tank found.
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Modi needs only one hand to spin khadi thread, while Gandhi and everyone else needs two
Another twist in the continuing saga of the spin.
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Students in Pakistan enact moments from Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding event
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‘Hind’s Hall’: Rapper Macklemore releases poignant song in support of Palestine, US campus protests
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Vote bank politics: Why Modi is silent on the attacks on Dalits in Gujarat
No leader angers his core supporters to keep floating voters happy.
Ajaz Ashraf
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Modi sympathisers among India’s public intellectuals are writing columns oozing disappointment
The assessment about his government’s performance in the first weeks in office, even among those seen as his supporters, is bleak.
Diksha Madhok, qz.com