President of India
Who Will Be President?
Jayanta Ghosal
From the stable of the ruling BJP, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh seems to be the first choice
One-way Transaction
The Indian president likes to pay income tax but he gets much in return that ordinary Indians don’t
The Ultimate Pragmatist
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
Different Media Strokes
Going against the precedent of earlier prime ministers, Narendra Modi has done away with the post of media advisor
Injudicious Move
The effort to impeach Chief Justice Dipak Misra is unlikely to succeed in Parliament but the political calculations behind it are obvious
The Prime Minister Who Never Was
Pranab Mukherjee’s many adventures in managing interests and egos to stabilise coalition politics
With Allies Like These
The Shiv Sena’s rejection of BJP’s presidential choice hints of worse to come for Maharashtra’s ruling alliance
Ram Nath Kovind: First Person Singular
It is not his Dalit identity alone that makes Ram Nath Kovind an ideal presidential choice
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