Punjab

The Death of Sidhu Moose Wala

Rahul Pandita

The focus has again shifted to the gangster-insurgent nexus in Punjab, which many believe will have a lasting impact on how things unfold in the state in the coming days

Navjot Singh Sidhu: A Bad Joke

Amita Shah

Sentenced by the court in a 1988 case of road rage and accused by colleagues of not being a team player, Navjot Singh Sidhu faces the biggest test of his career

A Return to 1857

Nikita Doval

The remains of a massacred battalion of mutinying Indian soldiers raise new questions about how the uprising is remembered

The Cost of Freebies

Siddharth Singh

States like Punjab and Rajasthan that indulge the most in economic populism are also the most fiscally stressed

Who’s Afraid of the Hindu Vote?

PR Ramesh

The anti-BJP plank will resort to dividing the electorate along regional, religious, caste and linguistic lines in the run-up to 2024 despite the fact that such a strategy no longer yields the dividends it once did

The Triumph of the Outsider

Siddharth Singh

AAP decimated Congress and SAD with a more attractive model of populism, changing the political map of a traditional two-party state

Modi & the Monk

PR Ramesh

It was the ‘double-engine’ magic of Modi-Yogi at work in UP. In the run-up to 2024, the unambiguous message is that leaders like Adityanath will give no quarter to slow-footed rivals