Indian politics adopts a queer principle. There is a Laxman Rekha in political discourse. Nobody is expected to cross the same. An example is attack...

The many opinions on opinion poll in India may be broadly classified in two groups. Those whose opinion is to ban opinion polls and those who want...

These words weren’t Narendra Modi’s in 2013 but by JRD Tata in 1986. Modi, perhaps, copied from what Bharat Ratna Tata wrote. The unavoidable...

Communication is an art.  In a market economy,  all arts can be purchased. There are communication professionals or spin-doctors aplenty, leaving...

Who is the most hated politician in India today? The other way of putting the same question is: who is the most popular politician in India now? If...

To polarise means to divide people or their opinions into two opposing factions. The term is a popular one, particularly in media and among those who...

There are orators aplenty but few communicators, says Narendra Modi. For Modi, a despised figure among the scribes and intellectuals of India, oratory...

It was a masterstroke of political communication. By rubbishing the ordinance to save convicted politicians Rahul Gandhi has delivered a key message,...

Politicians are dream merchants. Or should we call them as opium peddlers and occasional consumers so as to intoxicate the mass? Can we dare say so of...

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg thanked social media for acting as an effective feedback tool, ‘an instant referendum on everything.’ Bloomberg knows...

Normally what our prime minister says are heard by the Indian media, not necessarily by Indians as such. There are good reasons for that. Over the...

Our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is  a respected man; at least to those who dabble in economics. While studying Indian economics in college I...