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Inside Track: Will Kejriwal wilt?

Inside Track: Will Kejriwal wilt?
23.02.2025 9

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside Track: Will Kejriwal wilt?

Inside Track: Will Kejriwal wilt?
23.02.2025 5

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Will Kejriwal wilt?

23.02.2025 20

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

Express view on arson and violence in Bangladesh: Dhaka must act

10.02.2025 10

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Shah to the rescue

09.02.2025 8

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside Track: Amit Shah to the rescue

09.02.2025 9

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Who is in charge?

27.01.2025 10

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside Track: Too Reddy to boss

13.01.2025 10

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside Track: Too Reddy to boss

12.01.2025 10

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Politics of stardom, upcoming Delhi polls and more

12.01.2025 10

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Modi’s slide, Congress’ yo-yo, and a nation at crossroads

End of the year round-ups customarily sum up the winners and losers of the year. But in the political rat race of 2024, it was a snakes and ladders...

29.12.2024 4

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

In D Gukesh’s World Championship win lies Indian chess’s immense possibilities

India’s second world champion may underplay his young age. But in it lies the promise of even greater things

15.12.2024 4

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Express view: On temples, mosques and history, a welcome order

As we commemorate the 75th year of the Constitution, the future of the Places of Worship Act lies in the hands of the Supreme Court and they could...

15.12.2024 40

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

The Third edit: Why food ratings commit an injustice to taste

The Taste Atlas Awards feature the top 100 popular cuisines like Italian and Indian but it lacks the most important ingredient of all - a...

15.12.2024 5

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside Track: Not Very Pleasant

Residents of the uber exclusive Mount Pleasant Road in Mumbai’s Malabar Hill are waiting anxiously for their neighbour, Eknath Shinde, to vacate...

15.12.2024 4

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Not Very Pleasant

Residents of the uber exclusive Mount Pleasant Road in Mumbai’s Malabar Hill, who include the Birlas, the Ruias, the general manager of the Central...

15.12.2024 7

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Do it my way

The NDA’s Maharashtra victory overshadowed the significance of Yogi Adityanath’s impressive feat in UP. The BJP alliance won seven of nine...

01.12.2024 7

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

Coomi Kapoor writes: For Goa’s tourism woes, don’t blame the ‘desi’ visitor

That the Goa service sector has outpriced itself and not bothered to remain competitive with comparable international tourist destinations is...

20.11.2024 10

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Deathly duplicity

The debate on euthanasia has been revived of late. Social norms, religious beliefs, the Hippocratic oath and modern medical interventions make it...

17.11.2024 10

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

New BJP president will have to be supported by both govt & Sangh Parivar

The name of the new BJP party president will be declared after the assembly results. In the wake of the unimpressive showing in the Lok Sabha...

03.11.2024 3

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Presidential Frontrunners

The name of the new BJP party president will be declared after the assembly results. In the wake of the unimpressive showing in the Lok Sabha...

03.11.2024 20

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

The frustrated Canadian police are floundering because of their dependence on the US to produce the credible evidence

Canadians claim proudly that their iconic police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, always get their man. But a year after Justin Trudeau...

20.10.2024 2

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Mountie, No Bounty

Canadians claim proudly that their iconic police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, always get their man. But a year after Justin Trudeau...

20.10.2024 3

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

Ratan Tata: How the introvert, dark horse, rose to become India’s most respected businessman – and how he stayed on top

Ratan Tata was unquestionably India’s most respected businessman, even though by the standards of India’s wealthiest billionaires he was relatively...

10.10.2024 10

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

The algorithm too knows I’m PMSing

For a week every month, I am Anger, Sadness and Anxiety from the Pixar hit Inside Out 2, all rolled into one. Add a dash of Ennui to the cocktail...

06.10.2024 5

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Electoral outcome for Delhi will depend on how skillfully AAP, BJP, Congress play their cards

Delhi’s new CM, Atishi, with her crisp saris and college lecturer mannerisms, brings back memories of Sheila Dikshit, the gracious outsider who...

06.10.2024 3

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Capital minefield

Delhi’s new CM, Atishi, with her crisp saris and college lecturer mannerisms, brings back memories of Sheila Dikshit, the gracious outsider who...

06.10.2024 4

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

In the run-up to its centenary next year, the RSS will move into new quarters in Delhi, far more spacious than its original campus in Nagpur

22.09.2024 10

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Shift from Nagpur

In the run-up to its centenary next year, the RSS will move into new quarters in Delhi, far more spacious than its original campus in Nagpur. Three...

22.09.2024 4

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

Perception test

Electoral politics is often more perception than reality. So if PM Narendra Modi is looking slightly jaded and faded at the start of his “historic...

09.09.2024 3

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

PM has to walk a fine line, projecting his image as a strong leader along with enough humility to be pragmatic when required

Electoral politics is often more perception than reality. So if PM Narendra Modi is looking slightly jaded and faded at the start of his “historic...

08.09.2024 20

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Kolkata doctor rape and murder exposed rift between West Bengal CM Mamata and Abhishek Banerjee

The brutal rape and murder at R G Kar Medical College, Kolkata, has exposed the rift between Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and her designated...

25.08.2024 3

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Family Friction

The brutal rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata, has exposed the rift between Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and her designated successor,...

25.08.2024 3

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Total segregation

The architecture and rules of the new Parliament segregate not just journalists from MPs, whom they are expected to report on, but also Rajya Sabha...

11.08.2024 3

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

The architecture and rules of the new Parliament segregate journalists from MPs, whom they are expected to report on

The architecture and rules of the new Parliament segregate not just journalists from MPs, whom they are expected to report on, but also Rajya Sabha...

11.08.2024 3

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor

Inside track by Coomi Kapoor: Cutting down rivals

Powerful leaders tend to cut down potential rivals and alternative power centres. Even PMs Pandit Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi ensured...

29.07.2024 3

The Financial Express

Coomi Kapoor

With Modi’s once magical charisma and pulling power diminishing after poll results, bottled-up resentment in the BJP and RSS is surfacing

Powerful leaders tend to cut down potential rivals and alternative power centres. Even PMs Pandit Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi ensured...

28.07.2024 3

Indian Express

Coomi Kapoor