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The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst
    The farmers are hard-nosed realists and they are not sentimental romantic fools like their urban supporters and urban opponents. Representational Image. (PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Farmers can't be fooled: Govt looks...

    The farmers who are now demanding a law which assures MSP are not taking advantage of Mr Modi's goodwill gesture

    25 Nov 2021 2:30 AM IST

    Kangana Ranaut (PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Loony left and loony right are good for a...

    Between the loony left and the loony right, the loony right is more dangerous because they readily indulge in violence...

    20 Nov 2021 7:18 AM IST

    Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a meeting during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow. (AP)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Ambiguities remain amid India's pledges...

    PM's quantitative commitments at Glasgow earlier this month require a closer look than usual

    7 Nov 2021 11:55 PM IST

    Though 50 countries have promised net zero emissions by 2050, the experts feel that the roadmap is vague. Representational Image. (AFP)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India set to score brownie points at...

    In Paris, there was a commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2030

    29 Oct 2021 3:04 AM IST

    Mr Sidhu is cloaking his ambition in the bid to fight corrupt leaders in the party. (PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Sidhu drama reveals Cong afloat despite...

    The Congress had to go into the election with Mr Channi as the face of the party, and not Mr Sidhu

    30 Sept 2021 1:42 AM IST

    Channi, the first Dalit chief minister of the state, said he will become the voice of the common people of Punjab and will always remain accessible to the people. (Photo: Facebook)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Dalit CM in Punjab poses a real challenge...

    The devious games inside the Congress Party are too well known, and they are past lamentation

    22 Sept 2021 2:37 AM IST

    Hardik Patel (PTI file photo)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hindutva a weak riposte as BJP faces...

    As the 2022 election looms large, the high command seems to have realised that it cannot go into the election with Mr...

    16 Sept 2021 1:51 AM IST

    NITI Aayog building in the National Capital has been sealed for 48 hours, after a director level officer tested positive for coronavirus. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Govt can’t leave it to pvt sector to...

    The private sector in India is not too keen to get into infrastructure projects

    1 Sept 2021 1:20 AM IST

    The consistent stand of India, whether it was that of the BJP-led NDA or the Congress-led UPA, was that there are no good Taliban or bad Taliban , and that the Taliban as Islamic terrorists were all bad. Representational Image. (PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s real problem on Taliban is its...

    India’s first real brush with the Taliban came during the December 1999 Indian Airlines IC-814 hijacking

    24 Aug 2021 4:10 AM IST

    Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman would perhaps explain that the Modi government did not move the amendment to the retrospective tax amendment as it wanted it to be proved how wrong the Mukherjee move was in terms of legality. (PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Retro tax scrapping will not lead to spurt...

    Everyone felt that it was curtains at last for what is considered Pranab Mukherjee’s policy folly as finance minister...

    10 Aug 2021 2:17 AM IST

    A volunteer rides along a road with a mock Covishield and Covaxin vaccine vials on the back of his scooter during a Covid-19 coronavirus vaccination awareness campaign, in Chennai. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Plodding pace, supply glitches hit India’s drive to vaccinate all

    What is curious about these figures is that of vaccines in the pipeline and vaccines available

    5 Aug 2021 1:54 AM IST

    B S Yediyurappa during a programme commemorating two years of the BJP government in Karnataka at Vidhanasoudha in Bengaluru, Monday, July 26, 2021. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | BJP’s K’taka mess lingers: BSY won’t...

    Karnataka strongman and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa stepped down on Monday evening as the state’s chief minister after...

    28 July 2021 12:31 AM IST

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