S Prasannarajan
A classicist in politics for whom public life did not mean compromising on his moral inheritance
The first-person narrative recalls the drama that kept India awake for seven fateful nights
The party that Lal Krishna Advani built so dedicatedly for so long has started coming apart and the ‘iron man’ is still at the centre of it all, whether partymen and the RSS want him there or not
Jaswant Singh cites Gokhale to sell Jinnah as ‘an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity’. So, Hitler was a painter, right?
The unceremonious expulsion of this last survivor of the Vajpayee era smacks of a BJP desperate to shirk the blame for its poll debacle.
What’s with the BJP’s obsession with Jinnah? First LK Advani and now Jaswant Singh have gone out on a limb to say something charitable about the man.
Jaswant Singh is seeking votes in Darjeeling on the promise of his support for the Gorkhaland cause