While sections in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seem to believe, as Bal Thackeray did, that the gun is the only solution to the unrest in Kashmir,...

For an “above average” student, as a Vadnagar school teacher described Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister’s grasp of history does not appear to be...

The joy felt by Indians over the successes of P.V. Sindhu in badminton, Sakshi Malik in wrestling, and Dipa Karmakar in gymnastics is...

The final conflict, said Ignazio Silone, the Italian author, would be between the communists and ex-communists. India has seen a number of such...

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has given its guarded approval to Narendra Modi’s criticism of the cow vigilantes.Notwithstanding the caveat...

Inexplicably, Narendra Modi has been rather slow in cracking the whip on the violent Sangh Parivar rogues. It took him all of 10 days before he...

It is sad to see a promising politician stumble and be in danger of falling flat on his face. Till the Janata Dal United’s setback in Bihar in the...

Even as Sonia Gandhi prepares to pass the baton to her children in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh elections, it is obvious that she is not only...

The decades-old reputation of the Jana Sangh and its successor, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as a Brahmin-Bania party has been reinforced by a...

India would have faced far greater criticism of its handling of the outbreak in Kashmir if the international scene was calmer.With the US embroiled in...

A day before Ram Shankar Katheria was sacked the Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD), he had said that there was nothing wrong with...

It has taken two years but, finally, Narendra Modi appears to have found his feet. In a recent interview, he demonstrated his grip on the situation by...