The AAP’s moment
It has been described as the halting of the ‘saffron juggernaut’, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s worst recent political drubbing, a ‘Big Bang’ event in Indian politics, and Narendra Modi’s Stalingrad,…
It has been described as the halting of the ‘saffron juggernaut’, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s worst recent political drubbing, a ‘Big Bang’ event in Indian politics, and Narendra Modi’s Stalingrad,…
Less than two months after its spectacular Delhi victory which stopped the Modi juggernaut, the Aam Aadmi Party got drawn into an ugly, bruising internal conflict that led to the…
It has been described as the halting of the ‘saffron juggernaut’, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s worst recent political drubbing, a ‘Big Bang’ event in Indian politics, and Narendra Modi’s Stalingrad,…
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal recently did something no Indian politician has done to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi. He embarked on an ‘inspection tour’…
The news that pacifist-scholar Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, has joined India’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will further confound political punters. Some of them were already watching the…
As the Lok Sabha election looms, India’s political battle lines are being redrawn. The Congress, mauled in recent elections, is dispirited. Rahul Gandhi’s probable anointment as its prime ministerial candidate…
DR Manmohan Singh, who passed away at 92 last week, will be remembered in contrarian ways. As finance minister and as prime minister, he condemned ‘left wing extremism’ as the biggest internal…
It was early morning, with the sweet sound of birds and the freshness of the air. After taking a bath, I opened the front door of the lounge and sat…
THERE is a perceptible voter fatigue against divisive planks. That’s encouraging news coming in for Indian democracy, which braces for a seven-stage general election starting Friday. The last round of voting is…
IN a country where the Constitution and the rule of law have often amounted to nought, it’s the individuals, and tragically not institutions, who rule the roost and shape the…