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Rajiv Gandhi

Tradition and Morbidity

S Prasannarajan

Rebels for a day, and virtual renegades in a schmaltzy spectacle of piety and panegyrics in the next day’s headlines, the dissenting Congress leaders retreated without the humiliation of a recantation. Some mercy.

The Maharajah’s New Clothes

Air India is on the block again. Will it work?

A Chariot in History

At a brainstorming session Pramod Mahajan came up with the idea of a nationwide grand yatra, Narendra Modi concurred and that was the beginning of the Ram Rath Yatra, catapulting the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute on the national scene with LK Advani emerging as the face of Hindu aspirations

Beyond Insiders and Outsiders

An astute analysis of identity and belonging in Assam

Being Real

Was India a wily swing state during the Cold War?

Open Diary

Why pollsters fail to detect an electoral wave

LK Advani: Man of the Movement

LK Advani was the original apostle of hardcore Hindutva and the man who mobilised India for the sake of Rama

In Good Company

Attending the English classes at Cambridge

‘A ban on triple talaq isn’t enough. We need tough laws to punish violators’: Arif Mohammad Khan

Arif Mohammad Khan speaks to Executive Editor Ullekh NP on a range of issues, including the ongoing tussle over triple talaq, polygamy, Muslim insecurity and Constitutional propriety. Excerpts:

The Day Before

A pithy account of the Indian intervention in Sri Lanka that culminated in tragedy

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