India

Back to Their Old Games

Anil Budur Lulla

Political compromises in Karnataka before this year’s General Election

Maa, Maati, Megalomania

Rahul Pandita

Mamata Banerjee has pushed West Bengal to a new low

Ayodhya Shining

Dhirendra K Jha

Political agents seem hellbent on stirring UP’s communal cauldron: a ground report

The Inconvenient Chief Minister

Mihir Srivastava

Both the BJP and Congress want to see Kejriwal fail, but he has a trump card they dare not ignore

The BJP’s Tea Party

Haima Deshpande

With the aid of Modi’s story of his days as a tea vendor, the state party unit has been wooing the chaiwallahs of South Mumbai in earnest

Out to Save Holy Cows

Omkar Khandekar

After police turned up with VHP activists to arrest local butchers for slaughtering cows, a Muslim group in a Gujarat village launched a cow protection campaign

The Great Betrayal of Bihar’s Landless

Dhirendra K Jha

It may yet return to haunt the country, this failure of Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan land reforms

So, Do You Need Modi?

Manu Joseph

The arrival of Arvind Kejriwal eliminates the need for the urban educated middle-class to negotiate a compromise with its own values

Modi and Muslims

Rahul Pandita

With his eye on 2014, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate is reaching out to Muslims like never before

Between Periamma and a Home in Italy

Anuradha Nagaraj

Two orphaned boys found a home in Italy when their children’s home in Bangalore put them up for adoption. Soon after, the boys’ maternal aunt and her husband lodged a case, protesting they had not been consulted