Sumit Mitra elaborates how it is a massive challenge to modernise the ailing Indian Railways, balancing costs and welfare

Over time, the ever formidable Press has been reduced to shambles; yet, the crisis isn't as devastating as was once approximated.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday directed chief secretary DM Spolia to take immediate short-term measures in order to ensure...

In India, where most voters can hardly see national issues beyond cricket and Bollywood, is corruption an electorally unpardonable sin? Most people...

In countries that are democratic not in name but in practice, such as the US, rival candidates of the major political parties get a wonderful...

Not everything is quite right in the way India’s politicians seem to look at India. Admittedly, everyone has his own perception of citizenship and...

The unexplained six-year-long stay on the execution of terrorist Afzal Guru who had masterminded the 2001 attack on the Parliament building, and the...

It is ironic that the news of the union government’s electrifying recovery last week from a long spell of governance paralysis came with the message...

It is one of the telling ironies of Indian political life that Subodh Kant Sahai, who, as a youth leader in the 1970’s, fervidly supported the...

The spectacular majority seen in the recent president and vice-president elections renders invalid the popular explanation for India’s halted...

Shooting the BreezePresident Barack Obama has recently given India a loud chiding for showing reluctance to accept reforms. ‘In too many sectors, such...

Shooting the BreezeFollowing the recent sting operation in IBNLive of money laundering by top guns of Bollywood, most of my acquaintances turned up...