The Congress’s expectation that a Third Front supported by it will be able to stop Narendra Modi is not as far-fetched as some may think. Since...

Even as Narendra Modi was stomping around the country on his election tour, few outside Gujarat knew that he had a wife languishing back home. Most...

Ever since Narendra Modi realised that his action-reaction justification for the 2002 riots would not be politically effective outside Gujarat, he had...

Even as Narendra Modi’s one-man show, to quote L K Advani, goes on full steam, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate has faltered on several...

When the Shiv Sena speaks sense, it is time to take note. The attention is called for all the more when the abrasive outfit talks of the BJP because...

Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh once described himself as a loose cannon. That was the time when he called P Chidambaram ‘intellectually...

Even with defeat staring the Congress in the face, the party continues to rely on the flawed political understanding of the Nehru-Gandhi family....

It isn’t only theatrics – staging dharnas, proposing an assembly session in the Ramlila grounds – which characterise Arvind Kejriwal’s politics....

As the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) continues to apply street-level tactics of activism to governance in both word and deed – calling Delhi’s Lt. Governor a...

In a keynote speech to the Jaipur literary festival, Amartya Sen said something which he might not have said some years ago. ‘I want to see a party...

Somnath Bharti not only suspects that at least some Africans are drug-peddlers and prostitutes, he also thinks that a section of the media is on...

The Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti’s recent unseemly conduct has confirmed the wisdom of those who decided that the police in the national capital...