Born To Survive

A Grand Launch

The roads leading to Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday evening, June 9, were jammed with vehicles as thousands of attendees made their way to the swearing-in ceremony of Modi 3.0

A Measure of Mumbai

How India’s financial capital votes has an outsized influence on national politics. Modi leaves nothing to chance

The Battle for Baramati

Two sisters-in-law find themselves in opposite corners with the future of the Pawar legacy at stake

Ajit Pawar Stakes His Claim

Ajit Pawar left no one in doubt that the political fight with his uncle Sharad Pawar was for real

Cong Insulates Gandhis From Rout In Hindi Heartland

The Pawar Riddle

Supriya Sule’s unease with BJP is reflected in her apparently cordial relations with DMK’s Kanimozhi and SP’s Dimple Yadav

The Dharmic Quotient

The trajectory of moral politics

The Loneliness of the Patriarch

NCP’s best Lok Sabha tally was nine seats two decades ago but that never came in the way of Sharad Pawar being projected as a prime ministerial candidate. That image of the wily strategist has been shattered by Ajit Pawar’s departure

Don’t Rule Out Sharad Pawar

For doing all manner of somersaults