BJP

No PLACE to HIDE

Ullekh NP

It is very easy to bug—and to get bugged. Inside the world of everyday spying

The Right ACT

Dhiraj Nayyar

Arun Jaitley’s maiden Budget lays the foundation for growth on the wreckage left behind by his predecessor

Thinking Right

Sunaina Kumar

Vivekananda International Foundation has become a talent supplier to the Modi regime

The legend of Narendra Damodardas Modi

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

The man, the mind, the mandate and the mission...

The Right Man

S Prasannarajan

The most audacious journey in the politics of India comes to a historic finale as Narendra Modi, a lone man on a mission, inherits an India transformed by his ideas of modernity

Verdict Day: Vignettes from BJP headquarters

Sunaina Kumar

Through the morning and afternoon on Verdict Day, the scenes outside the BJP office resembled a mela.

‘Although I have worked in Delhi, I have never belonged there’

Tavleen Singh

The morning I got a call from the Chief Minister’s office in Gandhinagar

“I will break the Delhi cabal of status quoists”

PR Ramesh

Just before setting out from his Gandhinagar residence for a whirlwind tour of eastern UP, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate spoke to our Managing Editor. Excerpts

Anyone but the One

S Prasannarajan

The One is Modi now, and at this moment in Indian politics, as the poet would have said, the performer and the performance have become one.

He is as feared and admired a politician as his mentor. His strategic skills and organisational acumen are as legendary as the controversies that swirl around him are never-ending. PR Ramesh embarks on a journey in search of the real Amit Shah, variously described as the man who holds the key to Narendra Modi’s conscience, a ruthless artist of realpolitik , the smartest spin doctor in town and the man nobody dares mess with. A definitive portrait