Gender makes for strange bedfellows! Yesterday’s political untouchables have become today’s huggables! So, Ms Brinda Karat, the Marxist, happily holds the hands of Ms Sushma Swaraj of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Gender rights have demonstrated the ability to unite what other principles have long separated, and divide what pragmatism has long united. Thus, in the same TV frame in which the two ladies were all smiles, the sullen Ms Mamata Banerjee was trying to free herself from the Congress party’s embrace.

<p><table width='100%' border=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #0253B7;'><B>Sanjay Baru:</B> Multipolar politics</td></tr><tr><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11px; '>Opposition

Sanjay Baru: Multipolar politics

Oppositions lesson in political arithmetic for Congress: 206 < 272

More From This Section

Ajai Shukla: Rafale's July take-off

Alokananda Chakraborty: It is okay to procrastinate

Sukumar Mukhopadhyay: GST - 'Paradise lost' from fractured design

Daniel Gros: Saving Europe's social model

Explore News