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?

Hard-edged nationalism and xenophobia of the 1930s are back in fashion in Europe, says British historian Frederick Taylor

The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate acquires a great communicator

Hinduism’s holiest destination has become Indian politics’ hottest dateline which will test the faith and tenacity of the man around whom the arguments about our national destiny swirl. A report on the political symbolism of Varanasi

Let’s dress up the shirtless too

Is it payback time in the Hindi heartland?

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…