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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
About the AuthorParsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst
    Cover photo of Ambedkar: A Life by Shashi Tharoor (Photo by arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Was Ambedkar Gandhi’s best critic or worst?

    We have in this book an ideal introduction to Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s life and politics. It is a lucid and brief...

    6 Nov 2022 1:17 AM IST

    The peak point of growth and prosperity is quite far off, so the short and medium-term prospects of growth and prosperity are nothing but bright. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Towards a more affluent India: Future not...

    The optimistic projection of the People Research on India’s Consumer Economy (Price) is that by 2047 -- when...

    4 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

    File photo of Mulayam Singh Yadav.Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Mulayam: A socialist who managed...

    It is not surprising that the obituarists and memorialists of Samajwadi Party patriarch and three-time Uttar Pradesh...

    12 Oct 2022 12:01 AM IST

    Cover photo of The Life and Times of George Fernandes By Rahul Ramagundam (Photo By Arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | The success and sacrifice of India’s last political...

    It will be tempting for many to read this biography of George Fernandes without noticing the author’s caveats...

    18 Sept 2022 1:23 AM IST

    Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Why Sitharaman’s appeal to India Inc...

    Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman threw a rhetorical question at India Inc recently asking them why they were so...

    17 Sept 2022 12:10 AM IST

    Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad (PTI file photo)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Congress heed what Ghulam Nabi had to...

    Mr Azad’s criticism of Rahul is what the Congress badly needs

    29 Aug 2022 9:01 AM IST

    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India@75 mood: Uneasy sense of triumphalism…Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India@75 mood: Uneasy sense of...

    So, what’s the mood? That seems to be the question that is playing on the minds of analysts and other observers...

    14 Aug 2022 11:49 PM IST

    Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair comes out of Tihar Jail after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in all FIRs lodged against him in UP, in New Delhi. (PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Let SC act: End arbitrary arrests over...

    The political and legal hullabaloo surrounding the cases of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair and suspended BJP...

    21 July 2022 11:30 PM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Why Modi’s reaching out to minorities,...

    BJP did get the Muslim vote in the 2022 UP Assembly elections, as pointed out by Hilal Ahmed in his analysis of the...

    16 July 2022 12:45 AM IST

    Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde along with rebel Shiv Sena MLAs flashes the victory sign as they arrive to attend a special session of Maharashtra Assembly, at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai, Sunday, July 3, 2022. After the House proceedings begin, Sunday election for the post of Speaker of the House will be held. (PTI)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Many twists in Maha drama: Will Shinde be...

    The ongoing political drama in Maharashtra, with its interesting twists and turns, may not have really ended with the...

    3 July 2022 11:56 PM IST

    (L-2R) Chief of Indian Army staff General Manoj Pande, Chief of Air staff, Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R. Hari Kumar pose for pictures during a press conference in New Delhi on June 14, 2022, to announce the new Agnipath scheme under which soldiers across the three military services will be recruited and will be called Agniveers. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Govt’s surprise moves: The lack of...

    Agnipath announcement has all the elements of a surprise move without any serious thinking and planning behind it

    21 Jun 2022 10:30 PM IST

    Cover image of the book Why Do You Fear My Way So Much? Poems and Letters from Prison by G.N. Saibaba. (Twitter)Lifestyle
    Book Review | G.N. Saibaba’s testimony of agony and hope

    This book is not a legal scrutiny of the unfair verdict

    5 Jun 2022 10:46 AM IST

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