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The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst
    The last active politician who became President before Pranab Mukherjee was Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1992. So it was not an easy going for Pranab. File PhotoOpinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Pranab Da’s politics: Adept at managing...

    Pranab showed that he was capable in dealing with the intricacies of administration without handing over levers of power...

    4 Sept 2020 4:23 PM IST

    Community health workers screen a man for COVID-19 symptoms in Dharavi, one of Asias biggest slums, in Mumbai. AP PhotoOpinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s mood is sombre: Is Modi...

    Independence Day has also been a grim occasion for many of those who had to leave behind everything they had

    15 Aug 2020 5:21 PM IST

    PM Narendra Modi in the Bhoomi Pujan (ANI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Puja at Ayodhya: Modi’s bid to seal...

    He was careful enough to avoid mentioning the other part of the Ayodhya settlement as directed by the SC in its November...

    5 Aug 2020 8:23 PM IST

    A bureaucratic warren is what is in store for twenty-first century school education. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | NEP is ambitious, but needs more...

    To put the ideas of the plan into action, many more institutions have to be set up

    1 Aug 2020 4:26 PM IST

    (From left) Sachin Pilot with Ashok GehlotOpinion
    Parsa | A failed coup & intolerant CM fuels Raj sarkar crisis

    There is room only for one leader, It is the same culture that has been enacted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the...

    16 July 2020 6:42 PM IST

    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The politics of Modi’s Galwan, COVID silenceOpinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The politics of Modi’s Galwan, COVID...

    It has become clear by now that Modi is uncomfortable with the nitty-gritty, and with details

    4 July 2020 6:30 PM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 25th Foundation Day of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences at Bengaluru via video conferencing, in New Delhi. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | A bad start to 2.0: Modi's bravado fails...

    When Modi and the BJP came back to power in the summer of 2019, the euphoria was confined mainly to the party

    3 Jun 2020 5:09 PM IST

    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr: Will Atma Nirbhar Bharat ignite the economy?Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr: Will Atma Nirbhar Bharat' ignite the...

    By leaving it as an open-ended term, Mr Modi and his colleagues want to wait and watch which way the global trade winds...

    22 May 2020 6:55 PM IST

    The exercise of creating the graded zones of red, orange and green on the basis of the intensity of Covid-19 in these areas seems to have been done without strategic intent. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr: Govt muddling in crisis, drift and politics...

    The Central government took gratuitous decisions without consulting the chief ministers and the state governments

    9 May 2020 7:10 PM IST

    : A health official (L) collects sample for a swab test from a mobile testing van during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the coronavirus, in Ahmedabad. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Covid-19: A glimmer of hope as recoveries rise

    The difference between the fatalities and recoveries is huge, and gives rise to more than a glimmer of hope

    28 April 2020 6:13 PM IST

    Forensic officials arrive at Nizamuddin Markaz to conduct an investigation into the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus at a congregation organised by the Tablighi Jamaat in mid-March. (PTI)Opinion
    Covid's TJ factor: Shun prejudice, stick to facts

    The vilification of the Tablighi Jamaat is nothing but transparent majoritarian prejudice in full display

    9 April 2020 3:36 PM IST

    Jyotiraditya Scindia at the BJP party headquarters in New Delhi after bidding goodbye to the Congress. (PTI)Opinion
    Jyotiraditya Scindia’s exit is a sign of confusion in the Congress

    And that confusion is due to lack of ideological clarity rather than faction fighting within the party

    12 March 2020 9:49 PM IST

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