Politics

Amit Shah: Master of the Machine

Amita Shah

Amit Shah is already planning 2024. A portrait of the ace organiser

The Autumn of Dynastic Politics

Siddharth Singh

Fin de family

The Southern Frontier

V Shoba

The BJP put up its best-ever show in Karnataka but stopped short of making headway in Kerala and Tamil Nadu

The Dawn of Hindu Politics

PR Ramesh

A new idea of India as defined by Modi

Why Modi is Still the One

S Prasannarajan

Modi’s individual integrity gave the politics of hope a greater sense of authenticity

Power Dressing

Jayanta Ghosal

High and Low

Siddharth Singh

From nationalism to name-calling and from the insignificant to the intricate, this season of electioneering brought out the best and the worst of Indian politics

General Election 2019: Quote Hanger

Madhavankutty Pillai

Remember how I described him on 7 December 2017? Was I not prophetic?, asks Mani Shankar Aiyar

Away from the humdrum of noisy electioneering, on three edges of the country—Kashmir, the Assam border and the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh—democracy faces different varieties of disenchantment that are hard to undo