Congress

Battle for Gujarat: Amit Shah in the Vanguard

PR Ramesh

The BJP president cannot afford to leave anything to chance in the most prestigious Assembly election

Himachal Pradesh: Natural Selection

Aresh Shirali

Who will win Himachal Pradesh? Is that even a question?

The Northeast: The Last Frontier

Amita Shah

The BJP’s many strategies to capture power and popular imagination in the northeast

Indraprastha

Virendra Kapoor

An overexcited opposition, a Congress celebration and a Rahul Gandhi question

Solar Shock in Kerala

Shahina KK

The Congress leadership in the state sinks deeper in the politics of sleaze

Indraprastha

Virendra Kapoor

A dynastic club, taxation relief and a Congress rebellion in Bihar

The Battle for Karnataka

Amita Shah

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is setting the poll agenda but the BJP has found a way to counter it

Modi’s Mandal: The Day of the Most Backward

Ullekh NP

Tapping the wrath of ‘lower’ OBCs is a strategy that the BJP Government expects will pay off as it goes ahead with a major overhaul of the backward quota system

Excerpts from a speech Rahul Gandhi has not delivered yet

S Prasannarajan

I'm a story badly told by others. They can't go on reducing me to an idea retrieved from a genetic memory

Ahmed Patel: Man on the Brink

PR Ramesh

For over a decade, as the conscience keeper of 10 Janpath, Ahmed Patel was the most powerful non-Gandhi in India. The master of the Congress party’s dark arts faces his darkest moment today