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Kalyani Shankar
Kalyani Shankar is a political commentator and a syndicated columnist. She was the Political Editor of Hindustan Times and also its Washington correspondent. A press fellow at Cambridge University and senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington, Shankar is a founder member of the Indian women press corps.
Winter session stalemate: Urgent need for reform
There is a pressing need for parliamentary reforms to ensure discipline, decorum and efficiency as a lot of parliamentary time is simply wasted The Parliament’s productivity in the recent Winter Session was a record low, with only 52 per cent of scheduled work completed. Various factors, including disruptions and lack of quorum, contributed...
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Masterstroke or political Harakiri?
31 January 2024 | Kalyani Shankar -
Congress inner circle in turmoil
23 January 2024 | Kalyani Shankar -
Heed electoral math to win LS elections
17 January 2024 | Kalyani Shankar -
Will Modi magic work in the south?
09 January 2024 | Kalyani Shankar -
Ayodhya: From puja to progress
03 January 2024 | Kalyani Shankar -
Governors should be impartial and appear to be so
17 January 2023 | Kalyani Shankar -
Cong’s new agility yet to translate into poll success
04 January 2023 | Kalyani Shankar
Tableau politics mars Republic Day preparations
The Centre and the States should together evolve a fair tableaux selection process without any heartburn to any stakeholder Petty politics ought not to ruin the solemn atmosphere in celebrating the Republic Day or Independence Day. Unfortunately, more avoidable controversies arise between the ruling party and the opposition. For instance, while...
OBC is the new catchphrase in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh
Akhilesh has astutely moved away from his father’s trusted Muslim-Yadav formula to a new kind of social engineering for a larger social coalition Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has emerged as the primary challenger to the BJP in the February Assembly polls now that the...
Assembly polls: Whom will Dame Luck favour?
The polls are a contest between Brand Modi and the entire Opposition, being held during the mid-term of the Prime Minister’s second innings The Election Commission has sounded the poll bugle for assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Manipur, and Uttarakhand. BJP is ruling in four of the five States...
Safe poll campaigning is the need of the hour
If Omicron spreads further, as it has in the United States and Europe, political parties in India will have to take an equal share of the blame Many people doubt whether it is necessary to hold the upcoming Assembly polls in the poll-bound states next month or postpone them, as the...
wake up and smell the coffee
The Congress is at a ‘historic low.’ It will sit in Opposition again if CWC polls are not held soon Will the Gandhi family continue to control the over 136-year-old Congress Party? Will it shrink further? This are the questions bothering not just Congress leaders but also millions of party workers...
What lies ahead for Sasikala?
Soon to be released from prison, the late Jayalalithaa’s companion is keeping her cards close to her chest. But 2021 is not 2017 VK Sasikala, a close aide and companion of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, will be released from prison soon. Post-Jayalalithaa’s demise in December 2016, there was...
Yet another bid at Opposition unity
State leaders believe that they must emerge as an alternative to the Congress and the ruling BJP for democracy to thrive in the country In the early ’80s, buoyed by his big victory against the Congress the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister NT Rama Rao (NTR) talked about the formation of...
