politics

The Secret Diaries

Jayanta Ghosal

Former President Pranab Mukherjee used to maintain a personal diary that he wrote late night after finishing all his work

The Revenge of Ideology

Keerthik Sasidharan

Don’t write off the Rasputin of resentment politics

Delhi Gymkhana Elections

Virendra Kapoor

An ungentlemanly zeal in fighting for a place on the managing committee

The Expert and the Populist

S Prasannarajan

Between the politburo of knowledge and the callousness of politics

Enter the Unregistered Opposition

PR Ramesh and Siddharth Singh

As the Congress vacates the space of an active opposition with a counter-argument, civil society activists and other professional dissenters rush in to fill the vacuum

Gandhis Win, Congress Loses

Harish Khare

Sonia and Rahul Gandhi can have the satisfaction of a Pyrrhic victory. The party has formally reaffirmed their leadership, but it is seen as completely out of sync with the times

Prashant Bhusan: The Unforgiven

Jayanta Ghosal

Bhushan had played a big part in exposing the coal and 2G scams

Rebels for a day, and virtual renegades in a schmaltzy spectacle of piety and panegyrics in the next day’s headlines, the dissenting Congress leaders retreated without the humiliation of a recantation. Some mercy.