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One of the deadliest truisms in our business of reading election trends is, never trust journalists with their predictions. But...

On the eve of the 2002 Gujarat elections, I had stuck my neck out to predict, somewhat audaciously, that if...

One would have to be smoking something illegal to be even remotely seen to be defending Subrata Roy Sahara, N....

I am of the vintage that grew up detesting Neville Maxwell as an utterly contemptible India-hater. Or worse. A pro-Chinese...

Having plagiarised the Aam Aadmi Party’s trademark, why don’t I borrow their cap as well. Except, I am not sure...

Several years ago, the then British high commissioner suggested, in the course of a spirited conversation one evening at his...

For five years now, UPA 2 has been pilloried for ruining India’s economy, and deservedly so. But what has remained...

The real identity of Lagadapati Rajagopal, the Congress party’s pepper-spraying MP from Andhra Pradesh, was not known to me till...

It’s the season for us, of the older vintage in the media ‘ starting with Arun Shourie, teacher to many...

This was Rahul’s, and in fact the Gandhi family and the Congress party’s, best opportunity to come clean. But it...

In this season of conspiracy theories involving “evil” corporates, here is my humble contribution. That our greedy, thieving and cruel...