Category: National Interest

Writings on the wall is a metaphor that emerged from travels across India, particularly, but not necessarily, during elections (for...

If you’ve known Assam’s third term chief minister Tarun Gogoi for any length of time, you’d know him as an...

If you wanted to be so boringly accurate, wounded tiger is a description that will fit Imran Khan, now that...

Over the years (post-Sharm el-Sheikh, let’s say), our view of Pakistan has become re-militarised as its own society’s has become...

If the opinion polls turn out to be generally correct, and Narendra Modi comes to power, it will unleash an...

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...