politicians

Steeped in Sleaze

Ullekh NP

Sexual allegations against a high-profile young MLA rock Congress in Kerala

The Afterlife of a Maoist

Saketh Rajan is a case study in how activists, academics and politicians were complicit in glorifying a violent insurgency

Joe Biden: Exit Point

Madhavankutty Pillai

Joe Biden and the double standard of retirement

A Proverbial Guide to the Polls

MJ Akbar

Check the cheese and ignore the bombast

A Gamble Too Far

PR Ramesh

A police officer spills the beans on how his seniors, bureaucrats and politicians in the Bhupesh Baghel government had aided a betting syndicate in Chhattisgarh

Power and Meaning

Madhavankutty Pillai

Why politicians live longer and thrive when others don’t

Leave Aside Democracy Please

S Prasannarajan

When politicians equate their simulated victimhood with a crisis in democracy

Bring Back Dignity Please

Suhel Seth

How to deal with badly behaving MPs

Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold

N Kalyan Raman

Politics and love of a failed politician

Much Ado About Mumbai

Lhendup G Bhutia

With the Shiv Sena wooing outsiders, the Congress banking on film stars and the BJP determined to repeat its best showing ever, it is maximum politics in the Maximum City