Every possible postmortem of the verdict of the five recently concluded Assembly elections has been done by all possible pathologists,… Read full story

This is part one of a four-part ‘December’ series that revisits significant historical events and policies, and how the lessons learned… Read full story

What is shocking is the behaviour and utterances of Congress leaders like Karti Chidambaram and Priyank Kharge, who de facto supported the lunacy… Read full story

Pundits and people who are of a certain ideological bent of mind are a die-hard lot; or you could say they are a never-say-die lot. Ordinary mortals… Read full story

He was the quintessential Hindi heartland Congress politician when the party was at its towering peak. Yet, the mother of all ironies… Read full story

With the manner in which terrorists manage to score spectacularly gruesome attacks that butcher innocents across the world, countries have… Read full story

Both admirers and critics of Indian democracy will agree on one aspect: it is the noisiest democracy in the world. Where else in the world… Read full story

In politics, like in cricket and life, almost anything is possible. Congress fans watching the World Cup match between Netherlands and South Africa (not to… Read full story

Here is an excerpt from a story filed for the international wire service UPI on March 22, 1988: India has decided in principle to boycott a Davis Cup tennis… Read full story

When people talk of profound change and transformation, they often associate it with big pronouncements, highly publicised policy decisions with all the bells and whistles, and the usual dose of hype. But the… Read full story