Among the more interesting recent developments in Indian politics is the attempt to regroup fragments of the old Janata Parivar and launch a new,...

Twenty-five years ago this month, the Berlin Wall was dismantled by East German citizens who responded to an official announcement of a relaxation of...

All those who expected Prime minister Narendra Modi to deliver on his election-campaign promise of cleaning up Indian politics of money power and...

When Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani famously said of the media during the Emergency that ‘when asked to bend, they crawled’, he received...

The contrast between India’s two recent science and technology (S&T) projects couldn’t have been starker. One, by delivering accurate early...

Hindutva crossed another red line in Indian politics on 3 October when the state-owned Doordarshan news channel made a live broadcast, for the first...

In September every year, leaders of more than 190 states across the world, whether big or small, get a chance to make long speeches at the United...

Barely 100 days after scoring a stunning Lok Sabha victory, the Bharatiya Janata Party has suffered its third successive- and heaviest- defeat in...

How does Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s lofty slogan Sab ka Saath, Sab ka Vikaas (inclusion and development for all) square up with India’s...

Within weeks of winning the Lok Sabha elections with a surprisingly large margin, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance has...

If  the Narendra Modi government wanted to dismay and embarrass many of its own supporters even before completing a hundred days in office, it could...

More than a month after Israel launched a murderous onslaught on the Gaza Strip, with over 2,000 casualties, there’s still no clarity about when...