It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.

Probably the best analysis today on why #KamalaHarris lost. Must read.

How does sympathy for those without freedom affect J&k's politics? What role did it play in polls? A piece by Zahir Abdullah Zamir Abdullah in The Indian Express indianexpress.com/article/opinio… Shared by Indian Express android app Click here to download indexpress.page.link/shareDL

This beautiful, haunting piece by my friend and colleague kaushik dasgupta makes you a miss a Delhi gone by, the Ridge, especially -- but also appreciate it then and now indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

Had an interesting conversation with CBC News on #DonaldTrumpPresident2024 and the crisis of liberalism that may well have led to his win. cbc.ca/player/play/vi…

LIC whenever Adani Stocks take a Hammering

What the BJP's #JharkhandAssemblyElection2024 ad says about how broken our politics and democracy has become. A piece in The Indian Express Express Opinion indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

Exclusive: A major overhaul of MGNREGS has been recommended by a reforms committee. The report, which is not public yet, recommends deprivation based work allocation, 150-200 days of work per job card, wage revision using CPI (RL) benchmark.Hindustan Times hindustantimes.com/india-news/gov…

In Saif Ali Khan attack, no easy villains – only unsung heroes, must read piece by ⁦Aakash Joshi⁩ indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

#ExpressOpinion | “As we search for the villain in the Saif Ali Khan attack, let's also celebrate the heroes” Aakash Joshi on why we must resist the urge to look for scapegoats following the attack on Saif Ali Khan indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

My piece on why a cheap electricity bill isn't an ideology and AAP's cynical Hindutva politics backfiring. Kejriwal and co, though, have some silver linings to cling to indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

What is driving Trump’s seeming isolationism and disregard for the ‘international order’? Is it a new imperialistic impulse, or a response to domestic imperatives? What’s the view from New Delhi? Aakash Joshi explains: indianexpress.com/article/explai…

#ExpressOpinion | “Zelenskyy has been at the centre of a film scripted, directed and produced by the West. Trump is making a different movie, and this one isn’t a multi-starrer” Aakash Joshi on the recent dramatic Trump-Zelenskyy meeting indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

An important piece by senior advocate Thiru. Arvind P Datar in The The Indian Express today. As demographic imbalance grows between northern and southern states, it is vital to freeze the number of Parliamentary seats. Proportional representation cannot be applied blindly when it

Modi said Congress's pitch for Caste Census is an 'Urban Naxal' thought during Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Today, he passed the same Urban Naxal thought 🤣🤣🤣 How will his Bhakts defend this? #CasteCensus

What a sad day, foreign secretary had to protect his account because he and his daughter were receiving hate. Not from Pak but our own "nationalists" . The man was just doing his job and following orders from the Govt. And he did that with professionalism

Just wanted to share this absolutely lovely message by Ali Khan Ali Khan Mahmudabad s students, from his ‘Banish the Poets’ class:

Please take moment to understand what Justice Surya Kant did today. He found *nothing* criminal in content against which FIRs were filed against Prof Ali Khan. Yet formed SIT, restricted his foreign travel, gagged him from future speech & threatened (again!) academics from bench

Breaking now: G 7 statement on Israel Iran conflict rightly points out that Israel has a right to defend itself.. BUT it doesn’t acknowledge that Iran as a sovereign nation ALSO has a right to defend itself. It doesn’t mention what specific steps G 7 will take to defuse the

#ExpressOpinion | “Trump is fond of making deals — on trade, security and much else. His agenda, he claims, is America First. Unfortunately, the ‘rogue state’ of Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu is making him put the Israeli government (not its people) ahead of the US national