How the Finance Minister drafted his first budget and his own indispensability to the Modi agenda

Has the education minister put the Prime Minister’s modernisation agenda in jeopardy?

Outpaced by competitors and weighed down by its glory, India’s pioneering software services company struggles to find a life beyond the sheltering shadow of its founding father. Can the new CEO, Vishal Sikka, save Infosys?

Why India should be indebted to Prakash Karat

How the Prime Minister chose his ministers. The inside story

Faced with an unforgiving India and a redundant leadership, does Rahul Gandhi have any other choice?

Missing leader. Muddled message. And a Congress that has conceded defeat without even the semblance of a fight

Mulayam Singh Yadav was once called the Little Napoleon of Uttar Pradesh. Is he headed for his political Waterloo? Ullekh NP in the SP supremo’s home terrain finds intimations of a fadeout

As the Odisha Chief Minister is all set for a fourth term, Ullekh NP, travelling across the state, finds out why one of India’s suavest politicians is the smartest as well

A new government means a new set of favourite bureaucrats. Who will stay on and who won’t?

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…