BJP

‘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