To most supporters of Narendra Modi, including those outside the saffron fold who welcomed his economic agenda, the Prime Minister’s tenure so far has...

A murder and a suicide have queered the pitch for the BJP’s relations with two major communities - the Muslims and Dalits.If Mohammed Akhlaq’s...

Elections, which are the lifeline of democracy, reveal their negative side when politicians abandon ethical convictions for the sake of playing to the...

The Congress is in a predicament quite unlike that of any other party. It has lost its primacy of position at the national level and is struggling to...

Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death in Tashkent half a century ago robbed India and his party, the Congress, of many cherished possibilities which might have...

As in the case of decriminalising homosexuality, the Supreme Court is a few steps behind perceptions and social reality in India in the matter of...

The Lok Sabha speaker may have withdrawn her remarks about the Congress being indifferent to “national interest” on the last day of Parliament’s...

The current mellow, accommodative outlook of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is in striking contrast to the provocative anti-minority postures...

The contrast between the two main opponents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Delhi could not have been more stark. On one side is the...

There are unlikely to be any outright winners in the latest confrontation between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress over the National...

The good news is that Parliament is once again engaged in its business of debate and discussion, despite the occasional demonstration in the well of...

The BJP’s castigation of the non-Muslims who complain of intolerance comprises words like “manufactured paper rebellion”, “fake dissent”, Nehruvian,...