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Over the next few hours, the results of the election for the 15th Lok Sabha will start coming in. As it is, parties have started negotiations with each other on who will cross-over and at what price.
Then there's the charade of parties potentially abstaining during the vote of confidence so that the majority mark needed reduces, as was considered likely last year in July. That is downright unfair and wrong. The government should have a majority in...

After an unexpectedly resounding win in the 2009 general election, the UPA and its post-poll allies are now in the business of government formation.
Having secured 206 seats, the Congress (I) reckons that it can't be pushed around as it was in 2004. So it is a little more aggressive when it comes to doling out ministries....

Meira Kumar's election/nomination as speaker of the Lok Sabha has so much farce and symbolism around it.
For starters, what exactly transpired in the 9 days between the time she was included in the ministry as the Water Resources minister and her resignation being accepted by the president? Surely, it wasn't as though her latent talent for being a presiding...

Over the past 3-4 days, there've been multiple reports in Bangalore's newspapers about the Karnataka Queer Habba where individuals & organizations associated with homosexuality, sexual minorities, rights of sex-workers and sexual minorities will conduct...