Mr. Modi’s unwillingness to face questions from the press invites speculation about his second-term intentions. Observers must read meanings from his public speeches as also from utterances by
For the many who desired another result, sadness is unavoidable, but we must move on to understanding what happened.
Pulwama, Balakot, mammoth funds, a sharply tilted playing field, partisan umpires,
As someone who 30 years ago stood as the Janata Dal candidate against Rajiv Gandhi in Amethi, I may be allowed to comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s now
From the start, hate has given human beings company, but hate’s destructive power went up when guns and explosives came along.
We know that callousness, contempt and indifference are
In his article (‘The Mahatma and the Sangh’, IE, April 12), Manmohan Vaidya, the RSS joint general secretary, recalls an interesting meeting that took place in Delhi in 1947 between
Chaos characterizes Britain’s attempt to leave the European Union (EU). Though the EU is an experiment in supra-national governance, nationalism is reviving there too. The reason, partly, is
Tribalism or racialism is the barely concealed impulse behind ‘Let’s take our country back,’ a slogan that seems in recent times to have worked politically in more than one
When MPs were voted into our republic’s first Lok Sabha in 1952, there was no Indian Express or Times of India in Delhi. The only competition to the Hindustan
I am writing this within minutes of watching NDTV’s coverage of Wing Commander Abhinandan’s safe return to India from Pakistan, where he was detained after he had ejected
When on 10 Feb I concluded a Himmat blog on India’s coming election with the remark, ‘The possibility of provoked or unprovoked violence should be kept in mind,’ I
Speculation-time lengthens over India’s political scene. The big election is several weeks away. Uncertainties multiply, yet there is broad agreement on one factor that might favour Narendra Modi.
Even as a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court seems ready to hear the case about the Ayodhya site where the Babri mosque (said to have been built in
