politics

Anyone Seen Her Lately?

KA Shaji

The Lady of Poes Garden has vanished from Chennai to a little known tea garden in the Nilgiris. Tamil politics awaits her return, stars willing.

Andhra’s Suicide Frenzy

Anil B. Lulla

Nearly 50 suicides and 300 heart attacks. It’s the toll news of YSR’s death has taken in the state

Amid Flying Bricks and Rubble

Jatin Gandhi

The party that Lal Krishna Advani built so dedicatedly for so long has started coming apart and the ‘iron man’ is still at the centre of it all, whether partymen and the RSS want him there or not

Why is it that since 1992, despite umpteen changes of government in India and several different Prime Ministers of every ilk—left, right and centre—it feels as if we have had the same government in power for 17 years?

Statue of Debility

Ninad D. Sheth

The trust deficit between India and the US is unmistakable. What is it about America’s South Asia policy that gives the sense India has been downgraded?

Cloak and Swagger

Dhirendra K. Jha

Leila Kabir and Jaya Jaitly are waging a battle of intrigue for George Fernandes’ political legacy

The Maoist Mood

Sudeep Chakravarti

So long as Nepal cannot attain political stability without them, the landlocked country’s Maoists have the strongest hand to play. What might Prachanda’s next move look like?