politics

Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

Venkaiah Naidu’s exemplary leadership of the Rajya Sabha

Liberty for Whom?

Madhav Khosla

The flaws of India’s equality doctrine

BC Dutt: The Good Sailor

Amita Shah

BC Dutt, who lit the spark for the Naval Mutiny of 1946, is still an animated memory

Sir C Sankaran Nair: Lives and Letters

Nandini Nair

Former President of the Indian National Congress Sir C Sankaran Nair was one of the builders of modern India. His granddaughter carries forth his legacy in her own private and erudite way

Indraprastha

Virendra Kapoor

A fake marriage, Arun Jaitley's return to work and Modi's Red Fort speech

Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

Rahul Gandhi's parliamentary test

The Quest for a Sovereign Identity

Rajshree Chandra

Divine authority and other idioms of power in the shaping of modern India

It’s Not All That Bad

Gautam Chikermane

An argument against negativity

Waiting for the Barbarians

Siddharth Singh

The retreat of states and the politics of the future

The Bloody Biography of Change

TCA Raghavan

By all accounts, India is not a factor in the election. Is this because the consensus on India is so strong across Pakistan’s political divides that no party gets extra mileage by wrapping the flag around itself?