politics

New Year 2019 Issue: Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

Gods, princes and women who dared

Being a Punjabi

Siddharth Singh

Marked by identity politics

Best of Books 2018: Politics

Siddharth Singh

The American role and the nature of Pakistan

K Chandrashekar Rao: The King of Telangana

Amita Shah

As Chief Minister, KCR’s outreach programme addressed farmers, senior citizens, women, youth and the poor with a series of welfare and social schemes

Ashok Gehlot: The Desert Fox

Ullekh NP

With Rahul Gandhi keen on promoting young blood, Gehlot stuck to the party line throughout the election campaign of not asserting himself over the state Congress chief Sachin Pilot

Kamal Nath: The Artful Doer

Amita Shah

Nath was a political novice in the 80s when he rose to fame as a chum of Indira Gandhi’s younger son Sanjay. Slogans such as ‘Indira ke doh haath, Sanjay aur Kamal Nath’ date back to that time