Former foreign minister Natwar Singh is no ordinary diplomat-turned-politician. A part of the Indian establishment for half-a-century, he is well...

After President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to Parliament on behalf of the new government, many people seem to have convinced themselves that Prime...

A journalist isn’t generally expected to comment on news items in which s/he personally figures as an actor. But I’m compelled to do so in respect of...

It’s a sign of the pathology of much of India’s mainstream media that it displays the rise of the speculative-trader-<wbr>industrialist Hinduja...

Two weeks ago, many public-spirited Indians complimented the Election Commission for banning public speeches and rallies by the Bharatiya Janata...

Something unusual happened to the exhausted, jaded, effete Indian National Congress the other day. After years, somebody in the party had a bright new...

When Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency in 1975, the vast majority of Indian academics, intellectuals and media commentators protested. Barring a few...

Many Narendra Modi zealots are acting as if he had already been sworn in as prime minister, or as if that were only a matter of time. They have taken...

When the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) prevailed upon the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to nominate Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial...

Over the past month, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal did something no other leader has so far done to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime...

Scorched earth, is the kindest phrase to describe the approach of the last budget (rather, vote-on-account) of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)...

The Aam Aadmi Party has made a shrewd, calculated, well-planned move by quitting the Delhi government and taking a plunge into national politics. The...