Do minorities matter?
16 August 2017
Hamid Ansari's concern over unease among Indian minorities came just after Pakistan swore in its first Hindu cabinet minister in 20 years. Truth is contrary to this clickbait.
16 August 2017
CV and stature
24 June 2017
Whether Ram Nath Kovind has the credentials to be India's 14th Rashtrapati or not is now a non-question.
24 June 2017
HINDUTVA TO HINDUTVA-PLUS
27 March 2017
If political history could be divided into epochs, Indira Gandhi's began in 1969, when she split the Congress, and ended in 1989, when Rajiv Gandhi lost power.
27 March 2017
Maximum Modi, maximum opportunity
14 March 2017
The description “tectonic shift” was first used for election results by Union Cabinet minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. It has since gathered currency among pundits and partisans.
14 March 2017
Desperation and aspiration in UP's east
6 March 2017
Badlands is one of those familiar Americanisms, like ballpark, Wild West and gentrification that feature in our usage more as malapropisms.
6 March 2017
Burdened with Indiranomics
18 December 2016
The most fascinating insight notebandi provides is to the Narendra Modi government's approach to exercise of state power, political and economic ideology.
18 December 2016
Mammaries of the socialist raj
2 December 2016
The people caught most unprepared by the PM's strike on currency are the bureaucrats. The problem: They've been there, done that.
2 December 2016
Soft power, hard battles
24 October 2016
The night before Atal Bihari Vajpayee was to leave for Lahore on his historic bus ride in February 1999, his office was frantic. How to reach film star Dev Anand in the middle of the night?
24 October 2016
Kitney Pakistani thhey?
You can frame this question as when did Indian journalism self-destruct, when did it begin its self destruction, or, is it on its way to self-destruction?
17 October 2016