Narendra Modi

Sole Searching

Suhel Seth

The enduring power of Brand Modi

The Prologue to July

Siddharth Singh

The Finance Minister underscores the economics behind the Modi government’s faith in itself as it pursues welfare measures and infrastructure development with only a nominal increase in expenditure

A Temple of Sovereignty and Nationhood

Swapan Dasgupta

How Modi steered the expressions of raw anger into an articulation of national pride

God’s Politician

PR Ramesh

Modi’s reclamation of all things Hindu was part of a larger project of deconditioning and decolonisation

Humble in Victory

MJ Akbar

The consequences of the consecration must reflect sacred virtues

At Home With Ram

S Prasannarajan

A god has returned and the man who dedicated him to India added a new chapter to his own legend

Rites of Ram’s Memory

Sandeep Balakrishna

Hindus reclaimed Ram Janmabhoomi because they had kept alive the memory of their loss for 500 years

Ram Mandir Heralds Rise of Confident India: Modi

Rajeev Deshpande

The Ram temple offers inspiration for every section of society and marks the change in the kal chakra that should be seized, Prime Minister tells the nation

A “Tapasvi” PM Leads Prayers at Ram Mandir

Rajeev Deshpande

In less than an hour, religious ceremonies complete the consecration of the new idol of Lord Ram ending a wait that has spanned centuries and decades of legal battles