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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?

Rum’s Rebirth: Don’t Swill, Just Taste

Manu Remakant

Don’t Swill, Just Taste The story of how the drink survived the fury of the seas and the cruelty of men

The Wonders and Woes of Foreign Funds

Shailendra Tyagi

Foreign loans could prove hard to pay back if the rupee crashes

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