Amit Shah

Arvind Kejriwal: A Bitter Year in the Capital

Kumar Anshuman

How the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has become a full-time attack dog

The Ishrat File

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

Unravelling the political plot

After Bihar: The Road from Patna

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

Astute manipulation of the caste matrix and a savvy campaign led the Grand Alliance of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad to an epochal victory. The BJP underestimated the power of its opponent and fell victim to its own contradictions

The Patna Protocol

PR Ramesh

An epic battle is underway in the proverbial badlands of Bihar, where many political lives swing between irrelevance and renewal. Even as cracks appear in the artificial alliance of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad, the BJP wants more than a victory. It is fighting for a mandate worthy of India’s most popular politician and its unsurpassed campaigner. Narendra Modi’s next phase of modernisation will begin from the backwardness of Bihar