Anurag Thakur, who was elected BCCI president, has planned his cricket career with methodical precision

A comrade who defies both biology and ideology in Kerala. The triumph of Kancheepuram kitsch in Tamil Nadu. The compelling subaltern-sandesh socialist in Bengal. A Modi wave on the Brahmaputra. And a Family that couldn't provide the sheltering shadow for a withered party...The summer thriller of 2016

A verdict that magnifies the irrelevance of the Congress and strengthens the modernisation agenda of the Prime Minister

Assam’s anxiety about its identity and illegal migration made it a natural constituency for the BJP

The UDF has suffered a humiliating setback after a no-holds-barred campaign in which it was seen as aligning with communalists of all hues

For the first time, Tamil Nadu has voted back an incumbent party contesting without an ally

Mamata Banerjee’s victory is a major embarrassment for Yechury who jostled for CPM’s poll pact with the Congress

On the well-deserved backfiring of a cowshed conference