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The sameness of the Modi 3.0 govt is a mirage
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 15/06/2024
» The new cabinet of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is much the same as his old. The ministers for finance, defence, home, and foreign affairs have been retained, giving the impression of policy continuity.
India's exit polls may be more noise than signal
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 04/06/2024
» Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a landslide victory in India's general election. Or so claims nearly every exit poll released since the end of voting on Saturday evening. Yet, these surveys have proved spectacularly wrong in the past, and they must be read even more cautiously this time around because of the Modi government's outsize sway on the television stations that commission them.
Millennial vote a key for Asian polls
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 31/12/2018
» In the first half of 2019, a billion Asians will elect the next leaders of the region's two largest democracies. Half -- 400 million in India, and 79 million in Indonesia -- are from the millennial generation, born roughly between 1982 and 2001. Many will cast ballots for the first time. Although the threat of sectarian hatred looms large over both the Indian and Indonesian elections, economics will still take centre stage.
Reform status quo
News, Postbag, Published on 16/08/2018
» The Ministry of Education’s advertorial on educational reform on Aug 9 is encouraging. However, the article fails to point out one major problem that has been deterring the MoE, and in fact most bureaucracies in Thailand from reforming.
Naked man photographed and bribed
News, Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 04/06/2018
» CHON BURI: Two Indian nationals have been arrested by Pattaya police after an Indian reporter filed a complaint Sunday, accusing them of stripping him naked and taking pictures of him before demanding money in return for not posting them on social media.