Clik here to view.
How the Congress Lost the War of Ideas
What do you say about the entitled leadership of the country’s oldest political party except that they seem to have a tendency to perennially shoot themselves in the foot? In May, when he finally...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sheila Dikshit (1938-2019): Leader with a Capital L
HER GLASS-WALLED living room facing the 16th century Humayun’s tomb was slowly getting filled with Congress leaders and workers. It was about a week to go for Lok Sabha elections in Delhi this May. In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Karnataka: The Inevitable End
ON JULY 23RD EVENING, after 14 months as Karnataka Chief Minister, HD Kumaraswamy’s luck ran out. His own prayers, his brother HD Revanna’s magic lemons, even a lucky room at the Taj West End—all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Author of the Indian Century
For the first half of the ‘Open Decade’, between 2009 and 2019, India was governed with a closed mind.History does not measure time by the feeble pages of a calendar. It shapes our lives through the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Zero Marx
I remember visiting Harkishan Singh Surjeet’s ancestral home in Bundala in early 2005. It was a long drive from Delhi and we got lost more than once after reaching this large village in Jalandhar...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Last Resort of Politics
THE RENAISSANCE MUMBAI Convention Centre Hotel is a white stately five-star with a USP boasting a location on the banks of the Powai lake, the main water body of Mumbai. It belongs to the Marriott...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Open Diary
EVERY ELECTION GENERATES a wave of recriminations in the ranks of the defeated. Where and why did we go wrong? Who should take responsibility? What is the way forward? These are some of the legitimate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Meaning of the Mandate
ON THE DAY HE WON THE SECOND TERM AS Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi’s demeanor was like Arjuna in the Battle of Kurukshetra—composed yet confident. He seemed unprepared to rest on his laurels,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
General Election 2019: Quote Hanger
IF YOU MUST quibble with Aiyar’s question, then it is not about any reprehensibility incurred in calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a neech kisam ka aadmi (a low-minded person) on that fateful day of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Riding the Nationalist Wave
AFTER A SUICIDE BOMBER BLEW UP A BUS carrying CRPF personnel in Pulwama, Kashmir, in February, an angry crowd appeared in the form of a procession in the main town of Samastipur in Bihar. Anti-Pakistan...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Indraprastha
THIS IS ONE opinion poll no one dare ban. It is voluntary and informal, conducted for and by consenting adults who take their morning constitutional rather seriously. Mind you, morning walkers in Lodi...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sisters Lose
AN OLD ASSOCIATE of Lalu Yadav speaks of the time Sadhu Yadav was not allowed into the home of the former Bihar chief minister (and his brother-in-law) upon the instructions of a young Misa Bharti....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Back to Ballari
CLIMBING UP THE Congress’ campaign van in Kamalapur, a town bordering Hampi in Ballari district, VS Ugrappa settles into a corner spot with his arms crossed against his chest, and true to his name,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Demography is Destiny
AT THE EDGE of Dhubri town lies what many would call ‘civil lines’. A neat row of colonial residences overlooks the huge expanse of the Brahmaputra river. A sliver of parkland hemmed between the river...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Open Diary
ELECTIONS ARE INVARIABLY assessed in hindsight. In 2014, the pundits discovered the ‘Modi wave’ on the afternoon of May 16th when it became clear that not only had India reposed its faith in Narendra...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rahul Gandhi: The Angry Debunker
ON APRIL 2ND, JUST BEFORE noon at 24 Akbar Road, headquarters of the Congress party in Delhi, Rahul Gandhi looked like a well-rested runner ready for an ultra-marathon. Except, he was not in sports...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Via Wayanad
THE MOUNTAIN PASS that takes you from Kozhikode to the scenic and tranquil Wayanad, once a spice destination for Englishmen who later built tea and coffee plantations, is called Thamarassery Churam. It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Intimately Priyanka
THE ROAD LEADING UP TO Manhaiya, a village by the river Ganga on the outskirts of Prayagraj, is not so much a road as a slender vein of dirt and dust, hemmed in from both sides by tin shops and brick...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Death of Chemistry
“I AM A SERIOUS MAN,” says Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, forcing a smile for a photograph after a press conference in his home constituency, Kalaburagi, to announce the particulars of Congress...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Opportunity Versus Outcome
ADDRESSING FEMALE students in a college in Chennai, Rahul Gandhi said that he thought, “In general, women are smarter than men”, and drew immediate applause. But there is simply no evidence for such a...
View Article
![[-100%] Commodity Intelligence – (Android Apps)](http://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/j67-qJvmnn4xnVlYVZ9ZhtZUJIgwjKekJGoKQT6D1KHcWGZxtQaFroummEvwV17na7tyh1pGbbeWCRdWtTKqeg=w950-h950)
