Sonia Gandhi

Divided Rebels

Jayanta Ghosal

Getting increasingly restless over the likely outcome of state Assembly elections on May 2nd

The Always Undecided Post

Jayanta Ghosal

The dissidents, meanwhile, say that it is a Catch-22 situation. Either Rahul Gandhi must take the responsibility or leave the office totally to someone else

The Politics of Grievance

PR Ramesh

The cycle of agitations against the Modi government is unlikely to end anytime soon

Reluctant Rahul

Jayanta Ghosal

The buzz is the Gandhi scion is not keen to take over the party presidentship

Retirement Gambit

Jayanta Ghosal

Time to take political sanyas

Ahmed Patel (1949-2020): Power Behind the Power

PR Ramesh

Patel was a lone ranger in a party known for its groupism. With his death, Sonia Gandhi has lost the golden bridge linking her family to the party. And it can get very lonely up there in a castle of melting wax

Happy Birthday, Mr Prime Minister

Makarand R Paranjape

The seclusion of a great leader is the inevitable outcome of the sensitivity of his office

Pranab Mukherjee (1935-2020)

MJ Akbar

He understood that democratic politics is algebra, where various parts of the electoral equation are held together by governance, not deposits in vote banks

Enter the Unregistered Opposition

PR Ramesh and Siddharth Singh

As the Congress vacates the space of an active opposition with a counter-argument, civil society activists and other professional dissenters rush in to fill the vacuum