India

“I will break the Delhi cabal of status quoists”

PR Ramesh

Just before setting out from his Gandhinagar residence for a whirlwind tour of eastern UP, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate spoke to our Managing Editor. Excerpts

The uranium itch and other maladies in Seemandhra

Madhavankutty Pillai

The author travels through the strongholds of the YSR Congress chief where violence is a casual state of being. Will Jagan Mohan Reddy have his revenge?

The lost reformer of Pataliputra

PR Ramesh

Nitish Kumar rebuilt the state on the ruins of Lalu raj and allowed his hatred for Narendra Modi to cloud his political judgement. A cautionary tale of self-destruction.

The intimate daughter

Chinki Sinha

Priyanka on the stump exudes the charisma of her grandmother. A portrait

The surrender

Ullekh NP

Missing leader. Muddled message. And a Congress that has conceded defeat without even the semblance of a fight

Myth of the safe scribe

Garga Chatterjee

Is the threatened journalist a Pakistani curse alone?

A sense of betrayal, a whiff of hope

Madhavankutty Pillai

From Sonia Gandhi’s 13-minute stump speech to K Chandrashekar Rao’s nose which is more admirable than his words. Madhavankutty Pillai travels through a divided land and realises that the future of Telangana is hostage to populism and opportunism

Threat to Modi

PR Ramesh

Narendra Modi, one of India’s most protected politicians, tops the hit list of Islamist terror. PR Ramesh unravels the plot

Home is where the vote is…

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

…Or, is it that home is where the heart is but the heart is more than a cashbox?

The Wrestler Is Withering Away

Ullekh NP

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