From Sonia Gandhi’s 13-minute stump speech to K Chandrashekar Rao’s nose which is more admirable than his words. Madhavankutty Pillai travels through a divided land and realises that the future of Telangana is hostage to populism and opportunism

LK Advani discourages abstinence, Raj Thackeray scapes an old goat and Abu Azmi asks people to vote twice

The déjà vu around the fall and rise of BCCI administrators

Listening to the claims of Manmohan Singh, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Karunanidhi

Does Rohinton Mistry really need Aditya Thackeray’s permission to visit Mumbai?

When was the last time anyone heard Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar crack a joke? Now we know why.

SV Raju keeps the flame alive of the long dead Swatantra Party

On the hazards of extending reservations to the private sector

What has been missing in the speeches of Rahul Gandhi, Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal is levity. The man who can teach them that is Tamil Nadu filmstar-turned-politician Vijaykanth, a DMDK leader

On the flawed characters in the Devyani Khobragade drama