Narendra Modi

The Great Disconnect

PR Ramesh

Rahul Gandhi leads a Congress so bereft of ideas that it is banking on a divisive manifesto couched in the language of diversity and inclusion

Dance of the Defectors

Rahul Shivshankar

BJP isn’t taking them in to empty out the opposition. There’s a larger message

Hydra-Headed Alliance

Virendra Kapoor

The public recriminations over seat sharing could well mean that instead of hanging separately, they will now hang together

A Serial Survivor

Ullekh NP

The trials and triumphs of Ram Vilas Paswan

The Race to Eject KCR

V Shoba

The increasing irrelevance of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi as Congress and BJP take the lead in Telangana

Narendra Modi’s comments on the electoral bonds case stand out as he suggested that while there is room for improvement in political funding, the Supreme Court’s decision to scrap the initiative altogether was a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater