In the last three years, an unnatural number of bank branches have opened in former Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s constituency in West Bengal
08 July 2012The outcome of Prakash Karat’s casting vote in favour of Pranab Mukherjee
28 June 2012Why the Congress cannot count on his support beyond India’s presidential poll
21 June 2012The party may yet revive a project it had given up just recently—the Third Front
14 June 2012Her Kannauj bypoll victory is historic. That is shamefully so
14 June 2012The state’s former CM has spoken up and put the CPM’s central leadership in a fix
25 May 2012An attack on a BSP rebel. A defensive speech by Mayawati. Spot the link
25 May 2012…has passed its point of no-return with the recent battle cry sounded at a BSP rebel conclave
09 May 2012Even if the speculation in Delhi is true, a Kamaraj Lite Plan is unlikely to help the Congress
27 April 2012Prakash Karat is openly aligned with the party’s Kerala faction while the Bengal unit is headed its own way
22 April 2012CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm
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