The old cliché goes something like this — the battle lines are drawn. Talking of battle grounds, the upcoming Delhi assembly elections reminds one of...

Last week’s notebook had focussed on how the campaign for upcoming assembly polls in the city was gearing up. In between Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Delhi has been bracing for  assembly polls for the past few months. Soon after a change of guard at the Centre, and with the BJP having won all the...

Blaming “unknown persons” for the death of the wife of  high profile former union minister Shashi Tharoor is a sure give away that the Delhi Police...

Senior leaders in the Congress party often say that party general secretary Digvijaya Singh is not to be taken seriously. Therefore last week, when he...

This was the clear  message that emanated from BJP’s state unit head. After emerging as the second largest party in Jammu and Kashmir polls, BJP today...

At the end of counting day, it’s the electorate in both the states of Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand, which came out in large numbers to vote, which...

The year 2014 is in its last week. Despite being a critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, I cannot help but decorate him with the ‘Politician of the...

In 2012 the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had opposed the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee, then finance minister in Manmohan Singh’s government, tooth...

Last Friday a photograph on the front page of Indian Express sent a chill down my spine even though the weather in Delhi is yet to take its winter...

In Hindu mythology one of the incarnations of Lord Shiva is that of Neelkanth. According to scriptures, Shiva drank halahala (poison) when the gods...

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav’s 75th birthday celebrations have concluded. It has had the desired effect of creating more than a...