Explaining the disjunction between Rahul Gandhi’s views on the ordinance on convicted legislators and the government’s decision to come to their...

The government’s move to ask playschools to adopt mother tongues as their medium of instruction in the place of English is fraught with unforeseen...

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) eagerness for an early general election is born of the fear that the Congress may have found a brahmastra (ultimate...

Even as India waits for the two national parties – the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – to announce their prime ministerial candidates,...

It was a coincidence that on the day the rationalist, Narendra Dabholkar, was shot dead in Pune, the newspapers carried the report that all the local...

When Manmohan Singh rose to deliver his Independence Day speech, a fleeting thought could have crossed his mind that this might be his last bow before...

There was always a face behind the moderate-hardliner divide in the BJP. During the Ramjanmabhoomi movement, it was Atal Behari Vajpayee and L K...

The standard explanation for the prevailing sense of despondency is the ‘ethical and governance deficits’, which, in Finance MinisterP Chidambaram’s...

Now that it is fairly certain that the Congress will not only fail to reach its present tally of 200-plus seats in the Lok Sabha, but also fall behind...

The Ishrat Jahan staged shootout in Gujarat is a unique episode in the annals of Indian policing since it has led to the filing of charge-sheets...

During the run-up to the BJP-JD(U) breakup, a sentence in a TV news programme which crawled along with others at the bottom of the television screen,...

The salubrious setting for the BJP’s national executive meetings in Goa provided an unlikely background for one of the most vicious instances of...