The euphoria of social activism has evaporated. That it lacked staying power was evident early enough when Anna Hazare’s decision to shift his venue...

It appears that both mother and son, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, have chosen the wrong role model – Indira Gandhi – from their family. While Sonia...

Strange as it may seem, it is not always difficult to pinpoint the moment when a politician’s downfall begins. For instance, in Atal Behari Vajpayee’s...

All political lives, unless they are cut off in mid-stream at a happy juncture, end in failure, said the British Conservative Party leader, Enoch...

The predictable outcome in Karnataka does not diminish its value, for it has lessons for both the winner and the loser. To start with the latter, the...

Ever since the Manmohan Singh government became embroiled in scams, it has been mainly the Supreme Court that has pushed for accountability.In doing...

Even as the inboxes of Internet users are flooded with messages from Tamil activists favouring the cause of a separate homeland for Tamils in Sri...

The BJP faces a peculiar situation. While Narendra Modi is relentlessly pushing his own candidature for the prime minister’s post, there is no...

Narendra Modi’s switch from the politics of communalism to that of development is not the first instance in recent times of such a transformation from...

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) preparations for next year’s general election have been hit by several snags – all of them predictable.First, its...

Rahul Gandhi’s occasional ruminations on life (marriage, children) and politics (the quest for power and position) show him as someone who is not...

It is ironic that the chief minister who was held responsible for the BJP’s 2004 defeat by Atal Behari Vajpayee is now being presented as the party’s...