Reading the BJP’s defence of Narendra Modi 10 years after the Gujarat riots, it is difficult not to think of the proverbial line from the 1950s…
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Eight months after all of India saw the ugly spectacle of the Delhi Police enforcing the full power of the state on Baba Ramdev’s supporters in…
Back in 1990, when the Mandal Commission’s acceptance by the V P Singh government was redrawing the political constellation of Uttar Pradesh and much of North…
Will 2012 be a better year for India than 2011? As the new year dawns, the big question, in political terms for us as a nation,…
The best way to describe the current state of the Manmohan Singh government is the way the journalist Martin Johnson analysed the England cricket team of…
In 1996, when there were still considerable fears about the future of economic reform and western investors were flocking to management gurus to brush up on…
In October 2009, Open magazine ran a cover story with the title ‘Will the Congress rule for the next 20 years?’ The Congress had just won…
Back in the 1970s, Willie Whitelow, who later became Margaret Thatcher’s deputy prime minister, famously responded to a crisis in the then Labour government by tut-tutting…
Among the litany of mistakes that have littered the Congress’ path around the crisis it finds itself in now, two structural ones stand out for special…
When the French writer Andre Malraux asked Jawaharlal Nehru in 1958 about his greatest difficulty since Independence, Nehru is said to have replied, “Creating a just…
