Why bureaucrats need a cooling-off period after retirement

The affable Rajya Sabha deputy chairman finds himself in the midst of a political storm

Her grave-thumping act at Jayalalithaa’s memorial on the Marina before she went to prison in 2017 may turn out to be just optics in the end

I was plain lucky to have escaped it. Or, am I speaking too soon?

Trump, Johnson, Modi and the politics of change

The CPM chief may well have to bid adieu to his plans for basing himself in Lutyens’ Delhi

The many Gitas of the Mahabharata

Piyush Goyal has been working overtime to ensure that new coaches across the spectrum come with the hands-free advantage

Are things changing for the better?

How will India cope?

India’s response to Covid-19 is defined by the pandemic’s beginning when it was thought to be far deadlier and alien