Jayanta Ghosal
From the stable of the ruling BJP, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh seems to be the first choice
The Indian president likes to pay income tax but he gets much in return that ordinary Indians don’t
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
Going against the precedent of earlier prime ministers, Narendra Modi has done away with the post of media advisor
The effort to impeach Chief Justice Dipak Misra is unlikely to succeed in Parliament but the political calculations behind it are obvious
Pranab Mukherjee’s many adventures in managing interests and egos to stabilise coalition politics
The Shiv Sena’s rejection of BJP’s presidential choice hints of worse to come for Maharashtra’s ruling alliance
It is not his Dalit identity alone that makes Ram Nath Kovind an ideal presidential choice