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      Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

      Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

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      Before joining the opinion desk at The National, Chitrabhanu worked in the paper's sports section as a cricket and tennis writer, editor and podcaster. Prior to that, he was with Mid Day and The Indian Express newspapers. Once passionate about listening to music, hiking, playing gully cricket and biking along the beach, he now spends most of his spare time being overwhelmed by fatherhood.
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      Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the start of the inaugural ceremony of the new parliament building in New Delhi in May. AP Photo
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      From India to Bharat to the Moon, the BJP is leaving no stone unturned

      The opposition INDIA alliance has left the governing party worried ahead of the 2024 general election

      CommentSeptember 06, 2023
      Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrives at the parliament in New Delhi on Monday after his Lok Sabha membership was restored. EPA
      Rahul Gandhi should avoid the limelight, for the 'India' alliance's sake

      The coalition of opposition parties cannot defeat Narendra Modi in 2024 by promoting any of its leaders as its prime ministerial candidate

      CommentAugust 10, 2023
      A mourner pays respects to late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot on July 8, 2022. Reuters
      How is Japan faring a year after Shinzo Abe's assassination?

      The approval ratings of Abe's successor Fumio Kishida are up even as he faces challenges on the domestic front

      CommentJuly 07, 2023
      Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, seen in Patna, India last week, is building an alliance of opposition parties for the 2024 general election. Getty Images
      Has India's opposition to Modi finally got its act together?

      An ally-turned-foe of the Indian prime minister is forging a large coalition for the 2024 general election

      CommentJune 29, 2023
      South Africa's Charl Schwartzel watches his iron shot from the third tee on the third and final day of the LIV Golf Invitational Series event in St Albans, north of London, last June. AFP
      Saudi Arabia’s emergence as a sporting power is capitalism at work

      Golfers' disappointment over the PIF deal is understandable, but western reactions have been unfairly critical

      CommentJune 14, 2023
      India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds the Sengol, a Tamil sceptre, along with priests during the inauguration ceremony of the country's new parliament building in New Delhi on Sunday. AFP
      Row over India's parliament is about more than symbolism

      There are signs the government wants to expand the number of MPs, but doing so risks dividing the country in dangerous ways

      CommentMay 30, 2023
      A mural of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Chennai. EPA
      India's top political parties need to address power imbalances within

      The BJP and Congress will do themselves and the country's politics a world of good by restoring inner-party democracy

      CommentMay 16, 2023
      Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi speaks at a rally in snowy Srinagar on Monday. AP Photo
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      Rahul Gandhi has completed his long march across India, but where has it led him?

      The Indian opposition leader's cross-country trudge may not be enough to unseat Modi in 2024

      CommentJanuary 31, 2023
      Leader of AAP, Arvind Kejriwal. AFP
      One leader is tweaking Modi's populism to defeat him. Will it work?

      Arvind Kejriwal of the AAP is playing a canny long game. If he succeeds, he will have changed Indian politics

      CommentDecember 12, 2022
      British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Downing Street. Reuters
      Rishi Sunak's story has lessons for India and Britain

      'Indian excellence' might remain a myth if not for the welcome of other countries

      CommentOctober 26, 2022
      Congress party supporters stand in front of a poster that has president Sonia Gandhi and her son, Rahul Gandhi, on display. Getty Images
      It will take more than Modi to finish India's political dynasties

      The governing BJP appears to have figured out that it's not about displacing just one family legacy in the rival camp

      CommentAugust 10, 2022
      Shinzo Abe was assassinated in Nara, Japan on July 8, 2022. Reuters
      Shinzo Abe's legacy is a different Japan, braced for a more unstable world

      The assassinated ex-PM had long warned Japanese people that geopolitics was becoming unpredictable, and they had to be ready

      CommentJuly 08, 2022
      A general view of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi overlooking the Indian Parliament House in New Delhi. EPA
      Polarisation in India is deep-rooted, but Parliament can fix it

      At the heart of the problem is a 37-year-old law that desperately needs amending

      CommentJune 22, 2022
      Hindus wave religious flags and participate in a procession to mark Hanuman Jayanti, in Hyderabad, India, on April 16. Hanuman is one of the most popular gods in the crowded pantheon of Hindu deities. AP
      The place of secularism in Indian politics

      Until a few years ago, there existed a clear 'secular versus communal' binary. Today that is much less apparent

      CommentMay 02, 2022
      Singapore Finance Minister Lawrence Wong, right, speaks as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong looks at the Presidential Palace in Singapore on Saturday. EPA
      Is Singapore's leader-in-waiting the crisis man his country needs?

      Lawrence Wong, the government's point man during the pandemic, is in line to be the next prime minister

      CommentApril 19, 2022
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