All stories by Aditi Phadnis
What life has to offer to Prashant Kishor
Rediff.com9 Nov 2015Prashant Kishor, the man who put together Nitish Kumar's campaign strategy, is yet to decide whether he will make a serious political intervention in Bihar or will continue to be a professional running the Indian Political Action Committee.
If Nitish wasn't chief minister, could the Mahagathbandhan have won?
Rediff.com9 Nov 2015Kumar will always be known as the reformer chief minister who brought governance back to Bihar.
An appointment amid Pak army's dwindling patience
Rediff.com26 Oct 2015Is Nasir Khan Janjua's appointment as Pakistan's national security advisor the first step in suborning the elected civilian government?
Nothing has changed under Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana
Rediff.com24 Oct 2015The attack on a Dalit family in Faridabad days before the Khattar government's first anniversary suggests that nothing has changed.
In the race for Bihar, caste and governance matters
Rediff.com12 Oct 2015Factors such as industrial backwardness, crime, poor infrastructure, erratic power supply and poor educational infrastructure will take a backseat to identity
The legacy of the Nitish Kumar administration
Rediff.com7 Oct 2015"Governance, governance, governance," was what Nitish Kumar said were his three priorities when he took the helm of Bihar in 2005.
Inside the digital war rooms in battleground Bihar
Rediff.com6 Oct 2015The election in Bihar will never be the same, reports Aditi Phadnis
The complicated caste politics of Bihar
Rediff.com5 Oct 2015This election has some striking resemblances to the landmark one of 1977, with sub-caste combinations and antipathies still the bedrock of measures
AAP's existential dilemma
Rediff.com28 Sep 2015Should the party expand to Punjab, Bihar and other places, or should it consolidate its gains in Delhi? This was one of the questions before the party when it split sometime back. An answer is yet to emerge.
How Rahul plans to get rid of the old timers
Rediff.com26 Sep 2015'The so-called old guard is uneasy and resentful. These are the makings of a new Congress where there will be little or no role for them. And in their opinion, it is not a Congress that will win elections,' says Aditi Phadnis.
The rise and rise of Rakesh Maria
Rediff.com11 Sep 2015Successes and controversies have gone hand-in-hand for Maria.
The many good things that Magsayay winner Anshu Gupta does at Goonj
Rediff.com3 Aug 2015Goonj was eventually born in 1999, with 67 clothes his wife and he had collected.
Nearly everyone is missing a sense of purpose in govt
Rediff.com2 Aug 2015When it came to power, the BJP was a government with a difference: it had a majority in the Lok Sabha. Frequently the party itself forgets this
Govt could compromise on Land Bill 2015
Rediff.com1 Aug 2015Given the Opposition majority in the Rajya Sabha, the LARR Bill passed by the Upper House may be a deeply diluted version of the government's own 2015 Bill
Lalitgate: Why is BJP so at odds with itself?
Rediff.com9 Jul 2015India changed its stance towards Britain over Lalit Modi who has ED cases against him, and Vasundhara Raje, who gave the ruling BJP its most triumphant victory in Rajasthan, is in the dock for alleged nepotism.
An entrepreneurial mindset needs to be encouraged: Kalraj Mishra
Rediff.com8 Jul 2015'I have tried to make it easier for the small scale entrepreneur to do business and cut through the red tape.'
Monsoon session could derail GST deadline
Rediff.com7 Jul 2015Chairman of the committee S S Ahluwalia has sought an extension.
Terrorism worries resurface in Punjab
Rediff.com30 Jun 2015Pressures in the BJP-Akali Dal alliance have created grounds for a rise in extremism.
Sushma Swaraj is no pushover
Rediff.com20 Jun 2015Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj is a fighter who follows her own code. Those who think she's a pushover are making a mistake, says Aditi Phadnis
Five wrongs don't make a right
Rediff.com8 Jun 2015Nitish Kumar is on the brink of taking another wrong turn. It is hard to fathom why he would tie up with the Congress, which has little political capital left in Bihar. Aditi Phadnis reports