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
Assailed by one ally after another, Narendra Modi responded with a sudden poll-eve constitutional amendment dangling employment and educational quotas before poorer segments of higher caste Indians. Since opposing
‘Narendra Modi seeks image make-over.’ ‘Rahul Gandhi puts Modi on the defensive.’
In identical or similar words, such comments are common today in India. After facing setbacks in state-
That India’s political climate has improved somewhat was seen in the election results from what is often called the Hindi-speaking heartland when the Congress defeated the BJP to
28 November 2018 will be recorded in the annals of history as the crucial step taken by the Pakistani and Indian governments to reconnect the historical Punjab, which in 1947
Once more India and the US appear to show matching trends. Even as Trump looks to have become weaker in America, Narendra Modi seems to be losing ground in India.
Islamabad’s decision to create a corridor for Sikh pilgrims from India to walk unhindered to the sacred spot in Pakistan, less than 4 km from the Indo-Pak border,
The 42-year-old Chennai-based maestro, T M Krishna, was scheduled to sing at a festival in New Delhi’s Nehru Park on 17 & 18 November but on
