As national parties increasingly find themselves fighting legal battles, influential lawyers walk away with Rajya Sabha nominations
Beyond the magic figure of 7.6 lies the bigger challenge for the Modi Government
The party is growing as rapidly as the Congress did when Gandhi was at the helm
Replugging our 2016 cover story in the light of Supreme Court decision on AMU: The Centre is determined to deny minority status to Aligarh Muslim University
How the RJD don Shahabuddin made Siwan jail his political headquarters
A comrade who defies both biology and ideology in Kerala. The triumph of Kancheepuram kitsch in Tamil Nadu. The compelling subaltern-sandesh socialist in Bengal. A Modi wave on the Brahmaputra. And a Family that couldn't provide the sheltering shadow for a withered party...The summer thriller of 2016
A verdict that magnifies the irrelevance of the Congress and strengthens the modernisation agenda of the Prime Minister
Assam’s anxiety about its identity and illegal migration made it a natural constituency for the BJP
The UDF has suffered a humiliating setback after a no-holds-barred campaign in which it was seen as aligning with communalists of all hues
For the first time, Tamil Nadu has voted back an incumbent party contesting without an ally