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NDA set to win big in Bihar as BJP-JD(U) juggernaut crushes RJD-Cong
NDA set to win big in Bihar as BJP-JD(U) juggernaut crushes RJD-Cong
4 min read
At the end of a hard fought, high decibel contest, Janata Dal (U) leader Nitish Kumar looks set to be CM again after a near-unbroken tenure of 20 years. PM Narendra Modi’s endorsed as BJP and NDA prim ...
Congress: A Spectacular Failure in Bihar
Congress: A Spectacular Failure in Bihar
2 min read
By mid-day on Friday, even before the final results tally was out, it was obvious that Congress party’s campaign in Bihar had bombed out spectacularly. The Congress was leading in just 6 out of the 61 ...
The Plot Against India
The Plot Against India
10 min read
Terror wears white coat: The arrest of a module of radicalised doctors and the deadly car bombing at the capital’s Red Fort unmasks a trail from Shopian in Kashmir to a village near Faridabad
The Mind of Modi
The Mind of Modi
7 min read
What it takes to be a leader with a difference
Salman Rushdie: The Vanishing Act
Salman Rushdie: The Vanishing Act
4 min read
Death is a living presence in Salman Rushdie’s new collection of stories
Nitish Kumar still retains his aura as a deliverer
Nitish Kumar still retains his aura as a deliverer
10 min read
If Nitish is a messiah for change in Bi­har, he is a demigod in Nalanda, his home turf.
Delhi on high alert after car explosion kills 9 near Red Fort
Delhi on high alert after car explosion kills 9 near Red Fort
2 min read
Security arrangements stepped up in other major Indian cities
Substance, not just duration, make Parliament an effective watchdog
Substance, not just duration, make Parliament an effective watchdog
4 min read
Criticism that a shorter winter session of Parliament will curtail scrutiny of the Government’s functioning has merit but the I.N.D.I.A. bloc’s tactics of repeated disruption have drowned out debate a ...
We the People (Contd.)
We the People (Contd.)
3 min read
What unites the legends of Trump the capitalist and Mamdani the socialist
14 Nov 2025 - Vol 04 | Issue 47

Epic

It's Nitish Kumar again as NDA wins a sensational mandate in Bihar
Salman Rushdie: The Vanishing Act
Salman Rushdie: The Vanishing Act
The Mind of Modi
The Mind of Modi
The Plot Against India
The Plot Against India
When the Veil Lifts
When the Veil Lifts
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Congress: A Spectacular Failure in Bihar
Congress: A Spectacular Failure in Bihar
By mid-day on Friday, even before the final results tally was out, it was obvious that Congress party’s campaign in Bihar had bombed out spectacularly. The Congress was leading in just 6 out of the 61 ...
NDA set to win big in Bihar as BJP-JD(U) juggernaut crushes RJD-Cong
At the end of a hard fought, high decibel contest, Janata Dal (U) leader Nitish Kumar looks set to be CM again after a near-unbroken tenure of 20 years. PM Narendra Modi’s endorsed as BJP and NDA prim ...
The Beneficiary Network
The Beneficiary Network
Will BJP’s welfare politics win Bihar?
She Knows Best: Women Will Have the Last Word in Bihar
The woman voter, whose life has changed under central and state welfare schemes, will decide who will form the next government in Bihar
NDA promises a crore jobs 
NDA promises a crore jobs 
A joint NDA manifesto pledges schemes for youth, women, EBCs in Bihar
The uses of centrist liberalism in India’s ideas-starved politics
A manifesto for the future
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