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Thursday, May 20, 2004
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Retrieving the idea of IndiaThe outcome of this election — unforeseen and as yet unexplained — represents an historic opportunity. Yet this chance is a fragile, momentary thing, and to seize it will require immense maturity on the part of the Congress and its ... 
Managing political discontentIndia has a record of rapid turnover of State Governments. In major States since 1980, the Opposition has won over 70 per cent of the time. If we remove West Bengal from that second calculation, the turnover rate is even higher. The fall of N. ... 
A crisis of the state structure?Not since the defeat of Indira Gandhi in 1977 has an election result been this thrilling. This was an election without a national crisis at play, no major populist mobilisation, and no fracturing identity politics. The Indian voter was quite ... 
How to make sense of the recent mandateSeen from the numerical perspective of government formation, the 2004 elections have produced a fragmented mandate. The Congress, the largest party leading the coalition is not large enough to be able to elicit cooperation from its present and ... 
A reassertion of willWhat took place on May 13, 2004 in India was nothing short of a dramatic reassertion of the will of the mass of the Indian people faced by a combination of feudal, dictatorial and neo-fascist structures of governance put in place by a ... Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address |
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