Mayur Didolkar

The Congress's scheme, while ambitious, is hardly a novelty in principle. Voters, especially from the rural areas, understand this all too well.

Making a celebrity speak on a volatile issue, and then condemning him or her for an opinion that goes against the popular sentiment of the times is not kosher. Here's how people's anger with Sachin Tendulkar following his answer to a journalist's question on Pulwama terror attack and the BCCI's decision to not make Team India play Pakistan at the ICC World Cup 2019 is wrong on many counts.

You see Mr Rahul Gandhi, as Hillary Clinton found out to her grief in 2016, just telling what a horrible person your opponent is does not work. Your challenge is only compounded considering the immense personal credibility your principal opponent enjoys

Endorsing film and theatre actor Naseeruddin Shah's view on Indian society or politics is akin to a subscription to the product endorsement fallacy. It's like saying Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s ability to finish cricket matches and his sense of timing while keeping the stumps automatically translates into expertise in motorcycle tyres or sugar-saturated soft drink that your child should drink!

Even assuming that Rahul Gandhi's 'chowkidar chor hain' rhetoric worked in the Assembly elections, it would be foolhardy to repeat that given the unequivocal Rafale verdict of the Supreme Court on Friday.

As we enter the penultimate stage of 2019 election season with Chhattisgarh (recently finished), Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Mizoram, and Telangana all going to elections, perhaps it would be a good time for the Congress to introspect on having Rahul Gandhi as the president

For the common people, the blue-blooded, elite-bred and -schooled members across powerful unelected institutions joining hands should occasion a bigger concern than the vague spectre of fascism that the Left has been raising for over six decades
 

There used to be a time that people with irrational phobias were recommended psychiatric help, but in this new, upside-down world of left-liberal orthodoxy, my irrational fear is legitimate excuse to strip you of your lawful rights