Dr. A. K. Verma : Opinion in English

Writings in English Press

1. Post-Kovind Nominations: What does BJP’s Dalit Strategy Look like? Swarajya, 28 June 2017

2. ‘H-1B, Green Cards: Trump And Modi Have A Lot To Talk About When They Meet’, Swarajya, 25 May 2017

3. Explained: Why Pollsters Failed in Uttar Pradesh, Swarajya, 8 April 2017

4. Uttar Pradesh Verdict: Correcting Perceptional Distortions, Swarajya, 31 March 2017

5. Name of the Change: From Identity politics to Aspirational Politics, Open, 27 March 2017, pp. 22-25.

6. Modi Certainly doesn’t exclude Muslims from Governance, Rediff.com. 16 March, 2017

7. Death Knell for Congress? Despite Punjab Loss, BJP Emerges as Pan-India Party, New Indian Express, 12 March 2017

8. Decoding Resounding BJP Win, Deccan Herald, 12 March 2017

9. Why BJP Won So Massively in Uttar Pradesh?, ABP Live Blog, 11 March 2017

10. UP Elections: Little Hope for Congress in Amethi, Raebareily and Ayodhya, Swarajya, 6 March 2017-

11. Caste, Class And Gender: How The Muslim Vote In UP 2017 Is Getting Divided, Swarajya, 22 February, 2017

12. UP 2017 Phase III: Why SP May Have Lost This Round To BJP, Swarajya, 21 February, 2017

13. Decoded: UP’s Vastly Complex Caste Jigsaw, Swarajya, 10 February, 2017

14. Away from Media Glare, BJP is silently putting together mini-alliances, Swarajya, 7 February, 2017

15. Bihar 2015 and UP 2017: Four Ways The Two States Are Similar, Swarajya, 2 February 2017

16. Brake on Cash Donations may clean Politics, New Indian Express, 2 February, 2017

17. No More For Law And Order: What Can Possibly Explain Maya’s Outreach To Mukhtar Ansari?, Swarajya, 31 January 2017

18. Deft caste moves give wings to BJP’s 265-plus dream, Deccan Herald, 29 January 2017

19. SP-Congress Pact: Mistake or Master Stroke, New Indian Express, Edit Page, 25 January, 2017

20. UP Assembly Polls: Why the Congress-SP Coalition is No Passport to Power, Swarajya, 25 January, 2017

21. The Disciple who forgot his lessons, Swarajya, 13 January, 2017

22. No body can beat Mulayam without his own desire to be beaten, rediff.com, 4 January, 2017

23. State of the U.P. Battleground, The Hindu, 2 January, 2017

24. What Exactly Is Preventing A Congress-SP Coalition In Uttar Pradesh?, Swarajya, 21 December 2016

25. Jayalalithaa, Mayawati And Mamata: The Creators Of Their Own Auras, Swarajya, 18 December, 2016

26. Fresh Coat of Paint for the Party, New Indian Express, 21 November, 2016

27. Democratic Upsurge on the Cards, New Indian Express, 4 November, 2016

28. Casteism In Islam May Help Mayawati’s Dalit-Muslim Coalition, Swarajya, 28 October 2016

29. Akhilesh set to be New Sultan of Samajwadis, New Indian Express, 24 October 2016

30. Clear Change of Track: What Drives Mayawati’s Outreach to Muslims? Swarajya, 17 October, 2016

31. UP 2017: Congress banks on Rahul, social rainbow and miracles, Newsable.com, 19 September 2016

32. Mulayam is an Outdated Ticket in the SP, rediff.com, 16 September, 2016

33. Parties Getting Busy in Competitive Social Engineering in UP , Deccan Herald, 7 September, 2016

34. Who Will Catch the Rainbow: The Fragmentation of the OBC Votes, OPEN Magazine, 19 August 2016

35. Babbar-Dikshit Duo for Congress in UP: An Experiment Bound to Fail, Swarajya, 21 July 2016.

36. Reconfiguring OBC Politics in UP, Deccan Herald, 18 July, 2016

37. Mayawati: Spent Force or Dark Horse, Swarajya, 27 June, 2016

38. Why BJP Needs To Have A Face for Uttar Pradesh Elections?, Swarajya, 10 June, 2016

39. A Nation of Leaders sans Leadership, Deccan Herald, 18 May, 2016

40. The costly Handshake with Ajeet Singh: The BJP May do it for UP 2017, Swarajya, 15 May, 2016

41. Decoding BJP’s Choices for Five States And New Social Engineering Experiment, Swarajya, 12 April, 2016

42. Modi is Expanding BJP’s Support Base And The Congress Is Angry, Swarajya, 28 March, 2016

43. Maya. Modi, Muslims Challenge Akhilesh, Deccan Herald, 26 March 2016.

44. How Can The Rajya Sabha Be Better Aligned With Public Mandate? Swarajya, 11 March 2016.

45. ‘BJP’s Dilemma: CM’s Face’, Deccan Herald, 13 February 2016

46. ‘The Scramble for Dalit Votes in Uttar Pradesh’, Swarajya, 3 February 2016

47. Akhilesh Plays Trump Card Too Late, Swarajya, 2 November 2015

48. Can Mayawati Comeback in UP, Swarajya, 7 October 2015

49. Has Anyone Seen Mayawati Recently? Swarajya, 26 September 2015

50. What is the Bihari Voter Thinking, Swarajya, 20 September 2015

51. Be Wary of Assumptions in Bihar, Swarajya, 18 September 2015

52. What’s Brewing in Uttar Pradesh, Swarajya, 22 August 2015

53. New Janata Experiment’s Uncertainties: Who will benefit in UP and Bihar?”, Swarajya, 30 May 2015

54. A missing Rahul and its implications, Deccan Herald, 10 April, 2015

55. Kejriwal’s faults will bring ‘bure din’, Deccan Herald, 14 March 2015

56. Will AAP’s New Politics Trump Modi’s Development? Swarajya, 6 February, 2015

57. A Pakistan we don’t get to see, Deccan Herald, 14 January, 2015

58. Are Muslims fed-up with Identity Politics, Swarajya, 3 December, 2014.

59. Janata Dal 2.0 without Janata Support, Swarajya, 23 November, 2014

60. Maha Message: BJP Unchallenged, Swarajya, 19 October 2014

61. Maharashtra Masterstroke: BJP risks paid-off, Deccan Herald, 1 November 2014

62. UP By-Polls: When BJP took its eye off the Ball, Swarajya, 30 September, 2014

63. ‘The 2014 Verdict: Decoding UP’, Swarajya, 12 September 2014

64. Viewpoint: Kyoto-Kashi pact a part of PM’s smart-city vision’, News18, September 2, 2014

65. Congress Should Think and Revamp, The Economic Times, 16 June 2014

66. MODI’S CLEAN Saffron SWEEP of UP, HARDNEWS, June 2014

67. Modi Wave: Myth or Reality, Deccan Herald, Edit Page, 5 May. 2014

68. Is Muslim Voting behaviour Changing, The Economic Times, 18 April 2014

69. Varanasi: No Cake Walk for Modi, Deccan Herald, 13 April, 2014 

70. Election 2014: Modi’s OBC Card Trick, Hardnews, April 2014

71. What’s AAP?, The Economic Times, 18 March 2014

72. In UP, It is Modi vs. Others, Deccan Herald, (Election Special 2014), Blog, March 3, 2014

73. Is a Mayawati-Congress alliance brewing in Uttar Pradesh? The Economic Times, 3 February 2014.

74. ‘Will AAP turn out to be the Party Pooper in UP?’ The Economic Times, 9 January 2014.

75. ‘Hard Options, Soft Choices’, HARDNEWS, December 2013, pp. 26-28

76. In U.P., Narendra Modi Needs to Play it Right, The Economic Times, 10 December 2013.

77. “Mulayam’s New Politics, The Economic Times, Delhi, 19 November

78. Riots May Impact Ruling SP Fortune, Deccan Herald, 15 September, 2013

79. A Conflagration, A Story, Indian Express, 10 September, 2013

80. The Fairer Share, Indian Express, 12 September, 2012

81. Cracking The U.P. Test, Indian Express,7 March, 2012

82. U.P. Polls: Multiple Undercurrents, Mint, The Wall Streat Journal, p.19, 2 March 2012.

 

84. U.P. Election: Hard Nut to Crack, Hardnews, February 2012

85. ‘Devil in the Details’, Indian Express, 12 April, 2010-

86. ‘The Badlands of Bundelkhand’, Indian Express, 8 January 2010-

87. ‘Why UP is the Biggest Surprise this Election’, Rediff News, 18 May, 2009

88. Resurgence of the Congress and BJP in U.P, Rediff News, 27 April 2009 –

89. When 3+1 =5, Indian Express, 9 April, 2009-

90. Ms. Social Engineer, HARDNEWS, October, 2007

91. Politics Sans Excellence, Indian Express, 13 September, 2007

92. ‘Not That Cake, A Sandwich for Maya’, HARDNEWS, June, 2007-

93. It’s All Maya, Indian Express, 1 May, 2007-

94. Poll Promises, UP,UP and Away, Indian Express, 9 April, 2007

95. Local Writ Large, Indian Express, 15 March, 2007, p.11

96. SP, BSP Neck & Neck, (with Sanjay Kumar & Yogendra Yadav), Hindustan
Times, 24 January 2007

97. BJP the Real Loser, Congress the Real Winner (with V.B. Singh), How India Votes: Verdict 2004, The Hindu, 20 May, 2004