Sonia Gandhi

Of Political Brands and More

Suhel Seth

Why would Prashant Kishor get into the Congress mess?

Why Congress is Essential for India and How it Can Be Revived

Shashi Tharoor

Congress must rejuvenate itself, bringing in fresh faces and young blood into its leadership at all levels. It would help if the party took steps to promote inner-party democracy and a more consultative decision-making style: Open up the party to internal elections for its key positions. Seek the views of a wide cross-section of party stalwarts, not just a favoured few. Allow and encourage the emergence of local, state and regional leaders, ratified by periodic votes of party members

Party and the Family

Pallavi Aiyar

What Sonia Gandhi can learn from Megawati Sukarnoputri

The Grand Delusion

Ullekh NP

The bad news is not likely to end soon for Congress. But facing its biggest existential threat, the party leadership continues to be in a state of denial

The Radicalisation of the Congress Mind

Guru Prakash Paswan

Words and actions of party leaders should not be seen in isolation but as part of a long process of ideological transformation

The Low Command

Amita Shah

How the Congress leadership has lost its sway over chief ministers

The increasing impossibility of an anti-Modi coalition

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

Opposition unity remains elusive with Congress hurtling from crisis to crisis as old and potential allies grow more suspicious

Bond Elsewhere

Jayanta Ghosal

It seems with a new Parliament building in the offing, the Central Hall bonhomie will soon be a thing of the past

Brahmin Face

Jayanta Ghosal

Prasada had been in touch with Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, too, but ultimately decided to place his bet on BJP even though Akhilesh had offered the deputy chief ministership to him