First democratic-dynastic succession took place in Jammu and Kashmir this week, 40 years ago
Farooq was sworn in 90 minutes after Sheikh passed away: template was set for post-Indira scenario. Governor B.K. Nehru...
Modi built on RSS sangathan model to mobilise voters, reshape BJP
Ajay Singh first heard of Modi in 1990 in Lucknow when the latter was escorting the then BJP president Murli...
Azad diagnoses Congress’ ailment and quits the theatre
Planned by NGOs, Rahul’s pedestrian padyatra will avoid poll-bound Gujarat, HP. Alleging that decisions in Congress are taken not by...
75 years of India’s tryst with democracy
For federalism to be functional, plural polity is a necessity. The proudest achievement of our nation in its 75 years...
Kovind flagged decency as the fourth ‘D’ of democracy
The other three Ds are debate, dissent and decision. In a week from now votes will be cast to elect...
Thackeray’s Shiv Sena: Propped by Congress, dropped by BJP
Uddhav lost power, Pawar prestige, in a well-planned, surgically executed strike. Octogenarian Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar was acting as the...
A humble ex-minister who waited outside a sub collector’s office
NDA’s choice of Droupadi Murmu as the candidate for President of India, is in line with the Narendra Modi paradigm...
The President who used ‘pocket veto’ to stall legislation he didn’t agree with
Giani Zail Singh’s tenure saw uncomfortable relationship with two Prime Ministers. The man who had referred to Sanjay Gandhi...
Congress loses the fourth battle of Panipat
J.P. Nadda’s jab of Congress ‘lupt’ Bharat becomes ominously valid. Oxford-educated Independent candidate, Kartikeya Sharma brushed past the Congress nominee...
Rahul’s comments suggest he differs from Nehru’s idea of Nation
His interpretation of India, enunciated at Udaipur, reiterated in London and Cambridge. In his epic, Discovery of India, penned while...
Invincibility of Gandhi troika is reiterated at Udaipur
Berating BJP, Congress does not address how it can stem attrition in its vote base by AAP; Rahul thumbs his...
Grasshopper to grassroots: PK seeks to transform from strategist to activist
Padyatra in Bihar coincides with year-end state polls and provides alibi for his absence from the scene of action. True...
Rahul has his way, PK takes the highway
The butt of but (yet; unless; if not) expressions of a section of Congress old guard, who while appreciating what...
Will PK’s induction be Congress’ McKinsey moment?
Gandhis decide to outsource GOP’s management; admit inability of putting the house in order. Prashant Kishor is the flavour of...
Will Uttarakhand act as beacon for Uniform Civil Code?
Goa inherited uniform civil law from the Portuguese and since 1961 this common law has been part of India’s statute....
Congress downgraded from being national to a pan-states party
Mamata’s ambition dwarfed by Kejriwal’s Punjab triumph. The drubbing in the five-state polls and its virtual decimation in Uttar Pradesh...
Will KCR succeed where NTR did not?
Telangana Chief Minister, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao, popularly referred to as KCR, seems to be trying to replicate his mentor, Nandamuri...
Rahul’s shoot-and-scoot recoils; PM puts Congress on back foot
Non-BJP parties doubt Congress locus; CPI(M) questions ‘weakened’ GOP’s ability in its political draft. In one of his rare appearances...
In recognising unsung heroes, PM Modi reopens chapters of India’s glory
1946 Naval Mutiny was the Last war of Independence, which petrified the British that 1857 may be repeated. The...
Award to Azad recognises a political worker, who, like Modi, rose from grassroots
Ghulam Nabi Azad acquired the suffix Azad after he became an office-bearer of Indian Youth Congress in 1977, styling himself...
Sabotage of PM’s security raises profound questions
Has Congress, which is India’s party of Freedom, come to such a pass that issues of national security are dealt...
‘Didicracy’ fails to sway Kejriwal
The Delhi CM questions Mamata’s place in pan-India politics; Mamata’s ambition cleavages opposition; her bid to isolate Congress is stumped...
1961, Goa, 1971 Bangladesh: Diamond and gold of India’s glittering history
Third week of December ought to be celebrated akin to the West’s observance of World War triumphs. The coming week...
Unlike earlier splits, rebel offshoots now threaten attrition in Congress’ turf
Jan Sangh-BJP is only behemoth sans vertical split—a bane of Congress, Communist, Socialist, regional parties. Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress...
