Narendra Modi

Modi could be the One

S Prasannarajan

India, hurt and humiliated, needs more than a no-nonsensical administrator answerable to the people

Look who’s romancing the autocrat

Priyamvada Gopal

Think before you dismiss those who see the intimations of fascism as alarmists

The Light of Benares

Aatish Taseer

Modi, if he is to bring profound change, must not go the Erdogan or Rajapaksa route. Because the conditions for the emergence of that kind of leader do exist in India

Tweet for tat

Sunaina Kumar

This election has seen leaders slug it out on social media like never before. Clever parodists and faceless trolls too were at play

“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

The lost reformer of Pataliputra

PR Ramesh

Nitish Kumar rebuilt the state on the ruins of Lalu raj and allowed his hatred for Narendra Modi to cloud his political judgement. A cautionary tale of self-destruction.

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.

Let’s welcome the autonomy economy

Dhiraj Nayyar

Gujarat isn’t Guangdong, but shows the rest of India what its model of governance can achieve

Threat to Modi

PR Ramesh

Narendra Modi, one of India’s most protected politicians, tops the hit list of Islamist terror. PR Ramesh unravels the plot

The Comfort of Masks

Aatish Taseer

The masks are a celebration of sameness from which many people feel shut out. They convey both the euphoria of this election and its air of mutual distrust