In his novel “Delhi”, Khushwant Singh described his mistress Bhagmati as akin to the capital: both are unattractive and detestable, yet their...

A few days before an American-turned-Yemeni preacher, Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed in a hellfire missile attack by US drones in Yemen on September 30,...

Governance is a complex tool used to achieve political objectives. This reductionist definition may not fit into the academic description of...

T the Panchavati hall, within the precincts of the prime minister’s residence at 7 RCR, held the most powerful gathering of top political executives...

Ranjit Sinha is not the first director of the central bureau of investigation (CBI) to sully the organisation’s name. He will not be the last. He has...

A day is a long time in politics. 9 November, the day when prime minister Narendra Modi expanded his cabinet, was such a day. Every moment of the...

Election results are easily open to many inferences that one draws according to one’s own political assessment. The results of the Haryana and...

In Mahatma Gandhi’s worldview, the end never justified the means. In his very first public speech after returning to India, on the occasion of the...

Rajnath Singh is not an extraordinary leader. Though he has been BJP chief twice over – a feat that puts him on a par with Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK...

Justice Markandey Katju was a regular visitor of a bookshop in Connaught Place’s Janpath market. Once he bought a series of books by Winston Churchill...

If the state of affairs in Indian bureaucracy is any indication, the metaphor of ‘caged parrot’ should have readily replaced ‘steel frame’ as an apt...

Remember the metaphor ‘caged parrot’ the Supreme Court used to describe the country’s premier investigative agency, the central bureau of...