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Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati recognizes the predator at the gates — Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, who allegedly wants to alienate Mayawati from her Dalit vote-bank and appropriate it for his own aggrandization. Makes sound politics except that Rahul Gandhi was facing a veteran in the game in which he's still in the kindergarten.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: February 21 will go down in the annals of Kerala’s history as a Red Letter Day. That is for sure. The day saw God’s Own Country riding the development roller-coaster at the Invest Kerala Global Summit, which got off to a rollicking start.

BJP led government is now in power in the National Capital Territory Delhi, that has come with too many poll-promises to keep, and a very alert and strong opposition to challenge. It was obvious in the very first cabinet decision of the government led by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, that officially took charge on February 20, and the reaction of the opposition AAP leader and former chief minister Atishi.

Over the past decade, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reshaped the country's foreign policy by moving away from the traditional concept of nonalignment, which kept India from taking clear sides in global affairs. Instead, he has adopted a more flexible approach called "multi-alignment", where India engages with multiple countries based on its own interests rather than following a fixed ideology. This strategy allows India to maintain strong ties with different global powers, cooperate on various issues like trade, security, and technology, and make independent decisions that benefit the nation. By doing so, India has positioned itself as a key player on the world stage while safeguarding its own strategic and economic priorities.

Saffron ecosystem, especially the BJP leadership always strives to turn a Hindu festival into a political controversy. Every dispute adds to its membership and helps widen its support base. This time too they have succeeded in their move to politicize Maha Kumbh Mela. Notwithstanding stampede and death of large number of pilgrims in this year’s Kumbh Mela, which sullied image of the BJP government of UP and even slayed its political and administrative credibility, the saffron ecosystem has vivified its religious face.

Why did the $21 million USAID largesse fail to bring about the desired regime-change in India, replace Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seat in his place a more acceptable face? This should be US President Donald Trump’s query because the dollars belonged to Americans and President Trump and DOGE's presumptuous head Elon Musk have to trace and return to the American people their hard-earned dollars.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The convulsions in the Congress over party MP Shashi Tharoor’s fulsome praise of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government for the staggering growth in the start-up sector and its remarkable feat of emerging as the top state in the country in ease of business has exposed the double standards practised by the grand old party.

Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the White House on February 13 was meant to illustrate how close Modi was to his friend, Donald Trump, and to bask over the photo-op that it presented. Instead, what Modi’s short visit to Washington underlined was the subaltern status that India has been reduced to under Modi’s watch.

One need not be obtuse to realize there’s a growing rift between Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and the Chief Minister he replaced — Eknath Shinde, who also happens to be Maharashtra’s current Deputy Chief Minister and a man with a penchant for bucking sitting chief ministers like, for example, Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray.

Under late capitalism, there is an assault on the working people that is reminiscent of early capitalism and this assault is worldwide, not just in the third world but in the advanced capitalist countries as well. This assault is at three levels, economic, political and ideological.