‘India makes a power point’, announced a front-page headline of a leading national daily with triumphant finality when Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella...

Ever since Ahmedabad magistrate B J Ganatra rejected Zakia Jafri’s petition in late December and held that Chief Minister Narendra Modi was not part...

A month after storming to power in Delhi following a spectacular electoral debut, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has tarnished its image by taking three...

As the Lok Sabha election looms, India’s political battle-lines are being redrawn. The Congress, mauled in recent elections, and loathed for high...

The Bharatiya Janata Party  (BJP) has reasons to be greatly pleased with the results of the recent Assembly elections in four northern and central...

The entry of this rank ‘outsider’ into government poses a challenge not just to the Congress, but also to the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is...

Within days of making a stunning electoral debut in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party finds itself in a dilemma. Both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the...

The main message from the Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi Assembly elections is stark. The Congress stands routed and faces further...

Militant-nationalist euphoria is invariably conjured up whenever India conducts a seemingly sophisticated scientific experiment or makes lethal bombs,...

Whatever its other sins – and there are many – the Sangh Parivar can never be accused of one thing: of having produced a half-way tall intellectual....

If the turn persists, we will probably see extremely bloody Assembly elections in five states over the next month, and an even more gory 2014 Lok...

On 15 October, the CBI did something unusual in the coal block allotment scam—if only under the Supreme Court’s goading. It filed a First Information...