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Identity politics, divisive ideologies eroding national unity’: SC judge Mishra
Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra was speaking at the inaugural session of the national council meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad in Gujarat on Friday

Published on Dec 29, 2024 01:12 PM IST
Divisive rhetoric based on religion big challenge for constitutional ideal of fraternity: SC judge
Divisive rhetoric based on religion big challenge for constitutional ideal of fraternity: SC judge

Published on Dec 28, 2024 08:16 PM IST
PTI |
Maharashtra, Jharkhand Assembly elections: People’s issues missing yet again
Maharashtra’s farmer suicides and Jharkhand’s backward indexes are no long election themes. They have been replaced by a meaty dose of identity politics.

Updated on Nov 18, 2024 02:01 PM IST
In West Bengal, caste links with Hindutva
The BJP's political growth in Bengal is driven by the successful mobilisation of several lower caste groups, but the logic draws from the template of Hindutva

Sibling rivalry erupts in Kerala, this time it’s a battle for legacy
As former Congressman and chief minister K Karunakaran's daughter Padmaja joins the BJP, all bets are off between her and brother, Congress leader Muraleedharan

What’s the truth of Vivek Ramaswamy?
People like Ramaswamy have the ability to sow seeds of self-doubt in those who don’t strictly live by a party constitution.

Updated on Sep 11, 2023 07:59 AM IST
‘Politics in slums highly active and competitive’
A new book by political scientists Adam Auerbach and Tariq Thachil, Migrants and Machine Politics, informs much of what we think we know is based on myth.

Updated on Jun 05, 2023 03:42 PM IST
HT Correspondent, New Delhi
Ron DeSantis launches Presidential bid with Elon Musk : 5 key takeaways
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launches unconventional 2024 Presidential campaign with celebrity CEO Elon Musk amid technical hurdles and policy focus.

Updated on May 25, 2023 07:14 AM IST
Bihar symbolises a larger shift in politics | Opinion
This is driven by new aspirations, demography, information flows, and the PM’s popularity

Updated on Oct 27, 2020 08:25 PM IST
What Bihar will tell us about national politics
Given the pandemic, the nature of the election, of political competition, and of issues has changed. The outcome will reveal the mood

BJP’s new Mumbai chief wants BJP-Sena to win all 36 Assembly seats in city
Mangal Prabhat Lodha also indicated that the party’s poll campaign in Mumbai may also feature issues of nationalism and identity politics

Updated on Jul 20, 2019 01:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ketaki Ghoge, Mumbai
Modi won because he delivered on his promises
The key takeaway from the verdict is that governance is here to stay, and identity politics is on its last legs

Updated on Jun 05, 2019 06:52 PM IST
Elections 2019: Why the first phase is critical
Besides the macro messaging, the campaign has also been characterised by minute focus on identity politics and constructing social alliances. As voters exercise their choice, the first phase of the polls will be a test for the parties on which of the messages resonates the most, in which regions, and which social alliances will prevail.

Updated on Apr 11, 2019 11:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Identity politics shouldn’t overshadow real issues
In this election, all parties must stay away from both shallow secularism, which seeks to treat minorities as a homogeneous votebank to be mobilised, and majoritarianism, which seeks to blur all the diversity within the Hindu fold

Updated on Apr 09, 2019 07:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Lok Sabha polls 2019: Mumbai set to vote on April 29
If the last two polls are anything to go by, it is likely that the alliance that wins Mumbai in Lok Sabha Elections 2019 may as well win the most seats in Maharashtra.

Updated on Mar 12, 2019 02:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Ketaki Ghoge, Mumbai
EWS quota: Narendra Modi’s move to curb the ills of identity politics
India has reiterated the principle that economic backwardness in and of itself is a sufficient criterion for government-mandated affirmative action; it is not social identity alone that determines welfare need.

Published on Feb 11, 2019 07:31 AM IST
BJP to hold executive meet today, strategy for poll-bound states top agenda
The National Register of Citizens in Assam and the Citizens Amendment Bill will also come up for discussion as the party ups the ante on identity politics.

Updated on Sep 08, 2018 07:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
HT Correspondent
The NRC exercise will lead to an upsurge in identity politics in the Northeast
Even if 35 lakh people are disenfranchised instead of 40 lakh after appeals, it would still be the biggest such mass disenfranchisement in world history

Updated on Aug 01, 2018 06:35 PM IST
Two Iftars, two approaches towards minorities
The Congress and the BJP are engaging differently with minorities

Updated on Jun 15, 2018 09:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Dalit movements across India will be a front against hegemonic nationalism
Dalit identity politics is fast churning out an expansive axis of emancipatory struggle, and with all its ambiguities, perhaps the last few formidable sites that could resist and refigure the cultural hegemony on which the various edifices of Indian nationalism rests.

Published on Apr 18, 2018 12:02 PM IST
Americans didn’t choose Trump because of economic concerns
Donald Trump based his campaign almost entirely on the politics “difference” and identity

Updated on Sep 17, 2018 10:49 AM IST