Ullekh NP

Can the banker turned politician be the moderniser of Indian Railways?

He was considered the ultimate political survivor. Now, Kerala’s 82-year-old finance minister and the country’s longest-serving MLA stands disgraced

Obama’s State of the Union address on 20 January reinforces his protectionist image. It would scare potential investors away from projects such as the Make in India initiative

The newly appointed vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog is a scholar with patriotic zeal

This descendant of the Darbhanga dynasty of Bihar believes that historians have ignored the good deeds of her ancestors. The 33-year-old says that family fortunes began to decline from the time of her grandfather Visheshwar Singh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Northeast push is spurred by political and military reasons

Stephen Mark Kotkin on Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, his first volume in a three-part study of the Russian autocrat which hit the stands recently

A reckless Mamata Banerjee reduces Islamist terror to a Centre-state dispute

A despatch from the Maoist heartland