Mukund Padmanabhan
Sagarika Ghose brings out the qualities and contradictions of India’s most indulged prime minister in a new biography
Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister of Assam, in conversation with Siddharth Singh
She was television’s favourite daughter-in-law. She carved out her space at the top of Indian politics. And now she turns writer with a thriller set in the Maoist heartland. How Smriti Irani juggles the many hats of her life
New Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai may not be a mass leader like his predecessor but he is a skilled consensus-maker
Identity still holds the key to West Bengal despite the pronounced economic disparities
A classicist in politics for whom public life did not mean compromising on his moral inheritance