Narendra Modi

A Village and a Wish List

Kumar Anshuman

Our correspondent travels through Haryana’s Rewari district to see how the Budget’s rural vision has rekindled the hopes of villagers

The Long March

Siddharth Singh

Of five Finance Ministers

The End of Ideology

Swapan Dasgupta

The Arun Jaitley Budget, which also marks the 25th anniversary of the landmark Manmohan Singh Budget of 1991, envisions an India sustained by an enlightened state and a less skewed market

Jaitley’s Social Realism

S Prasannarajan

Capitalist India has not evolved enough to downsize the state

The Modi Defect

Lance Price

The author of The Modi Effect is disappointed by Prime Minister Modi. Why?

Where’s Modi’s Rajdharma?

Ullekh NP

Why the Gujarat political model is a bad idea for the entire nation

It is Narendra Modi moment as one of democracy’s most popular leaders to play out the script of the India Ideal: the liberal state rising from the last wreckage of the socialist mind. Freedom is about daring—and he should know