Cover Stories

‘The Prime Minister’s high trust quotient is BJP’s strength’

PR Ramesh

Union Home Minister Amit Shah in conversation with

Guarding the Citadel

Madhavankutty Pillai

Union Minister Piyush Goyal sways north Mumbai, a traditional BJP bastion, reports

A Measure of Mumbai

Lhendup G Bhutia

How India’s financial capital votes has an outsized influence on national politics. Modi leaves nothing to chance

The Last of Them

PR Ramesh

Why certain surnames are no longer an asset in indian politics

Portraits of Empowerment

Siddharth Singh | Ullekh NP | V Shoba

Lakshmi, artisan | Saira, homemaker | Thippamma, housekeeper

The X Factor

Anil Padmanabhan

A decade of women’s empowerment could be the catalyst for Modi’s victory

On Top of His Game

PR Ramesh

How Modi wins the young influentials—and the smart vote

The Wounded Happiness of Salman Rushdie

S Prasannarajan

What it takes to be a writer in the time of hate. Rushdie returns to that August morning in 2022 when he almost died under the knife of a man inspired by the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s death decree against the author

Congress: Is the Party Withering Away?

Ullekh NP

Congress is in organisational disarray with the exit of many senior leaders owing to the inaccessibility of the Gandhis and diminishing electoral prospects