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The Congress Bureau of Investigation

Mihir Srivastava

Big stick politics. Will it ever end?

Those Who Do Not Want to Bury Modi

Commentators warming up to Modi forget that his decade in power has seen the logic of the 2002 violence pursued by other means

Ruin of the Congress

As two recent books tell us, India’s most charismatic leader, Indira Gandhi, has left a debilitating effect on the party. Rahul’s efforts to shelve personality-driven politics only bewilders it

Nitish Must Make a Choice

In supporting Ramdev’s movement, he could be making a mistake his Lohiaite predecessors did—of strengthening those they claimed to oppose

Dread and Belonging in Kerala’s Party Villages

The state’s Kannur district is riddled with villages that are dominated by a single political party. A closer look at this peculiar phenomenon

The Dark Knight Rises

Christopher Nolan takes a comic book action hero and tries to talk about politics. What you get is an accidental critique of unbridled capitalism

The Rot Has Been Revealed

Now that Maharashtra’s irrigation projects have raised a stink, does the CM have it in him to act?

The Dibakarian Way of Life

Director Dibakar Banerjee on the politics of his films, his commitment to cinema as an art form and why he can’t bear to watch his own films

Food and the Nation

Fasting, feasting and the politics of food in India

Failing at the Art of Politics

The FDI decision has created a crisis that everyone but the Congress could have foreseen

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