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Rahul Gandhi
General Election 2019
Rahul Gandhi: The Angry Debunker

Can the aggressive campaign of Rahul Gandhi regain India for the Congress?

04 April 2019
Mamata Banerjee
General Election 2019
Will its Hindu revivalist past haunt West Bengal’s future?

Ullekh NP travels across a state where the social base of one of India’s strongest regional leaders faces the challenge of subterranean Hindutva

28 March 2019
‘Pulwama attack and India’s response not indefinite substitute for all other issues voters care about’
Politics
‘Pulwama attack and India’s response not indefinite substitute for all other issues voters care about’

Gilles Verniers, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ashoka University and co-director at its Trivedi Centre for Political Data, spoke to Executive Editor Ullekh NP on dominant ideas in India's 2019 election campaign

15 March 2019
A ghat in Varanasi
Dispatch
A View from the Wild East

From Varanasi to Gorakhpur, from Modi's constituency to Yogi's fief, the combined might of SP and BSP and the charisma of Priyanka Gandhi hope to make a dent in the BJP bastion. Ullekh NP travels through a volatile stretch of Indian politics

21 February 2019
The Future of Jobs
Cover Stories
The Future of Jobs

Like elsewhere, employment in India is set for an overhaul. Jobs will be lost and gained but quick adaptation will minimise pain

07 February 2019
Priyanka Gandhi in Delhi
Cover Stories
Enter Priyanka: Can She Save the Day for Rahul?

The return of the original Gandhi mystique

24 January 2019
How WhatsApp Is Changing Indian Politics
Cover Stories
How WhatsApp Is Changing Indian Politics

WhatsApp’s prized encryption technology becomes a powerful weapon for the fake news industry in its biggest and most complex market, India, ahead of the 2019 poll

17 January 2019
Quota Correction
Politics
Quota Correction

The BJP hopes offering reservations to economically weaker sections will help retain its core vote base, batter rival partnerships and tide over discontent ahead of the polls

10 January 2019
2019 Forecast
Cover Stories
2019 Forecast

One cannot foresee the future, but one can certainly assess signposts of the past and present to project their impact on it

03 January 2019
Nayanjot Lahiri
Books
Nayanjot Lahiri: The Time Keeper

Historian-archaeologist Nayanjot Lahiri takes us through India’s antiquity and values at breakneck speed in her new book

03 January 2019

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma 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

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

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

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

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