Indian politics rewards consensus-building centrists, not polarizing leaders who repel and attract voters in equal measure.
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For there is not much doubting that Indian politics have taken a nasty and confrontational turn.
Congress has been the dominant force in Indian politics for almost all of the past 65 years.
However, communal, caste and regional tensions continue to haunt Indian politics, sometimes threatening its long-standing democratic and secular ethos.
It propelled the BJP, which until Mr Advani's campaign had been on the fringe of Indian politics, into a mainstream party.
If even Mr. Tata's most high-profile project could be caught up in populist Indian politics, imagine the prospect for foreign companies.
Unfortunately, in Indian politics, competence and popularity are no guarantee of longevity.
He reckons it is the single most cheering thing in Indian politics.
Such hatred would be understandable because much of Indian politics is rotten.
One way or another, Indian politics at the moment looks a mess.
She is a controversial figure in Indian politics, having been accused of inciting Hindu hardliners who destroyed the Babri mosque near Ayodhya in 1992.
Even if he does, the unbuilt Ram temple will loom large in Indian politics ahead of a general election due before November next year.
Mr Kejriwal, clearly, is a street-fighting outsider who is trying to change the conventional narrative of Indian politics by taking on the rich and powerful.
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The baffling swirl of Indian politics makes for a gripping entertainment.
How much Mr Gandhi is able to revive the Congress in the heartland of Indian politics may well determine his - and his party's - future.
Nandan Nilekani, head of the Unique Identification Authority of India, believes that the number can transform Indian politics by curbing theft and leakage of public funds.
By contrast, twinkly-eyed and power-hungry Mr Mukherjee, who has spent four decades at the summit of Indian politics, has influence that extends, tentacle-like, across Delhi and beyond.
But that, too, points to a discouraging fragmentation in Indian politics: politicians and parties wildly popular in one state often fail utterly to appeal beyond their home regions.
Given the vagaries of Indian politics and the grave threat to his life, Farooq knows he must act fast if he is to solve Kashmir's seemingly intractable problems.
And there, despite her legal handicap, the opposition leader Miss Jayalalitha has two near-constants of Indian politics in her favour, disenchantment with the state government and pre-poll alliances.
The 52-year-old daughter of a government clerk who grew up in a shanty town in the capital, Delhi, has emerged as the pivot of a fledgling "third front" in Indian politics.
The two events the protest in Mumbai and the opening of the debate in Parliament in New Delhi played out in split screens on Indian television news stations, crystallizing a clash that has dominated Indian politics.
Excited by their success, some in Congress detect a deeper trend a shrinkage in the appeal of regional parties, such as the BSP, whose rise has constituted the main trend in Indian politics for two decades.
The unfulfilled mission of those who destroyed the mosque to build a Hindu temple on the site has haunted Indian politics ever since, poisoning communal relations between the Hindu majority and the Muslim 12% of the population.
The unfulfilled mission of the destroyers to build a temple on the site they say marks the birthplace of Ram, a model king and incarnate deity has haunted Indian politics ever since, poisoning communal relations between Hindus and the Muslim minority.
Last week, Mr Kejriwal, 44, took on the first family of Indian politics, saying businessman Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, enjoyed cosy business links with a top property development company in return for favours.
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And on September 24th a court was due to rule on one of the most divisive issues in Indian politics: the ownership of a disputed site in the northern city of Ayodhya, where in 1992, Hindu zealots demolished a mosque built on the reputed site of a temple marking the birthplace of the god Ram.
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She once did a wedding in which the royal families of India, the Clintons, and Sonia Chokshi all attended, among other major names in Indian and American politics.
The bonds between our countries are not just at the leadership level, but they're, obviously, at the person-to-person level given the extraordinary contributions of Indian Americans to our culture, our politics, and our economy.
Rising to Thackeray's bait, some of his counterparts on the lunatic fringe of Pakistani politics have issued similar threats against Indian players.
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