Rahul Gandhi

In Praise of the Risk Taker

Shekhar Gupta

What does the rise of Modi and Kejriwal, and the stalling of Rahul, say about Indian politics?

The Poetry of Dynasty and the Prodigal Son

Where Rahul Gandhi is an ancestral memory and Varun Gandhi is the intimate Other. Chinki Sinha discovers the dynamics of dynasty as she travels through Amethi, Rae Bareily and Sultanpur

There’s No Silence Louder than Rahul in Benares

Aatish Taseer

The enigma that is Rahul Gandhi has proved too inscrutable for the people of Benares. No one has a word to say about him, not even a harsh word

Of Discrimination and Flying Phones

Madhavankutty Pillai

What has been missing in the speeches of Rahul Gandhi, Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal is levity. The man who can teach them that is Tamil Nadu filmstar-turned-politician Vijaykanth, a DMDK leader

Guess who’s in search of the Führer

S Prasannarajan

Rahul’s Hitler invocation is in tune with the lazy intellectual tradition of our undergraduate radicals and peanut socialists

This Uprising will not be Televised

Bennett Voyles

There is more to this election than Modi and Rahul

The family woes of Rahul Gandhi

Sumantra Bose

Why the prospects of the Congress’ fifth-generation dynastic gamble hang by a slender thread

Charge of the Youth Brigade

Dhirendra K Jha

The Congress decision to send Digvijaya Singh and Kumari Selja to the Rajya Sabha is part of Rahul Gandhi’s much-touted generational change agenda

In addressing their party workers, both Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi have made a bold pitch for the votes of this rapidly expanding section of the electorate. This is now an electoral compulsion, not coincidence