Pranab Mukherjee

A Bangladeshi Remembers Rajiv Gandhi

Syed Badrul Ahsan

What if he had lived to get that second term in office?

A Vice-President’s Reflections

Mani Shankar Aiyar

An account of a proud Indian Muslim who occupied the highest offices

Pranab Mukherjee (1935-2020)

MJ Akbar

He understood that democratic politics is algebra, where various parts of the electoral equation are held together by governance, not deposits in vote banks

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 Ultimate Pragmatist

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

Juggling with figures remained the first love of the one-time economics teacher in an obscure Bengali college who became India’s youngest finance minister

Gadkari’s New Media

Jayanta Ghosal

Freedom of Speech

Siddharth Singh

The RSS is not known to seek validation by outsiders, but the furore over Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to its headquarters reveals a failure to appreciate its acceptability today