‘Total Politics’ at Play

The Loneliness of the Patriarch

NCP’s best Lok Sabha tally was nine seats two decades ago but that never came in the way of Sharad Pawar being projected as a prime ministerial candidate. That image of the wily strategist has been shattered by Ajit Pawar’s departure

Open Minds 2023: Soft Power

Nita Ambani | Siddhartha Mukherjee | Aditya Chopra | Guneet Monga | MM Keeravani | Deepika Padukone | SS Rajamouli | Abraham Verghese | Vikramaditya Motwane | Mani Ratnam | Sabyasachi Mukherjee | Ricky Kej | Manjari Chaturvedi | Bose Krishnamachari | Ratish Nanda | Falguni Shah | Janice Pariat | Sanjay Subrahmanyan | Meena Kandasamy | Vinod Kumar Shukla | Nikhat Zareen | Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty | Jude Anthany Joseph | Aanchal Malhotra | Meenakshi Shedde | Diljit Dosanjh

Open Minds 2023: Public Square

Salman Rushdie | Bimal Patel | Nandan Nilekani | Shashi Tharoor | Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Swapan Dasgupta | Ram Madhav | Gita Gopinath | Venki Ramakrishnan | J Sai Deepak | Arvind Panagariya | S Somanath | Deepak Shenoy | Vikram Sampath | Nithin Kamath | Shrinivas Kulkarni | Mukesh Ambani | Rahul Bhatia | N Chandrasekaran | Manjul Bhargava | Rohini Pande | Madhabi Puri Buch | Raj Chetty

Editor’s Note

Modi-Joey Bhai Bhai

The strategic calculation that underlies America’s great enthusiasm for India

Swaying to Modiplomacy

With this visit Modi and Biden have publicly owned the relationship and marked it as a memo to the world

The US Has Recognised India As an Equal Partner

Breakthrough deals in defence and tech have transformed the relationship

Modi Adds Authenticity to a Partnership in Democracy

What has made the Indian Prime Minister an event in America?

Foreign Hand

To secure NRI support in the US Rahul Gandhi aligns with groups and individuals holding questionable views on India