The minister for road transport and highways brings passion and an intuitive feel for policy and finance to his job. India is on the cusp of achieving rapid connectivity across major regions and is also promoting new approaches to green fuel, he tells Amita Shah and Siddharth Singh
BJP hopes to ride Narendra Modi’s popularity and Pushkar Singh Dhami’s last-minute decisions back to power while Congress thinks it has more than a chance
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle