Missing leader. Muddled message. And a Congress that has conceded defeat without even the semblance of a fight
Don’t Swill, Just Taste The story of how the drink survived the fury of the seas and the cruelty of men
Foreign loans could prove hard to pay back if the rupee crashes
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
Narendra Modi, one of India’s most protected politicians, tops the hit list of Islamist terror. PR Ramesh unravels the plot
…Or, is it that home is where the heart is but the heart is more than a cashbox?
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
As Mamata Banerjee rides a wave of triumphalism, Sohini Chattopadhyay in West Bengal says all is not as funny as the Trinamool leader’s limericks
In Haryana, a 70-year-old Sarpanch changes a centuries old tradition by permitting intercaste and intra-khap marriages