Narendra Modi

The Modi hotness quotient

Lhendup G Bhutia

On the sex appeal of the man with the fabled 56-inch chest

Aggression of the ascetic

Shiv Visvanathan

Deconstructing Modi’s semiotic war: Is it the end of Nehruvian India?

‘Although I have worked in Delhi, I have never belonged there’

Tavleen Singh

The morning I got a call from the Chief Minister’s office in Gandhinagar

Time for transformation

PR Ramesh

Candidate Modi, like Chief Minister Modi, has given India enough indications that he has a formula for revival

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.