You can see its emerging contours in UP rallies: Leaders moving away from cliche, voters moving to the centre —...
Category: Writings On The Wall
The You in UP
Voters in India’s largest state may be coming out of their trenches. Celebrate, unless you are the politician who built...
Up & down in down south
The answer to the question why most politicians in India do not get re-elected, is a no-brainer. It’s because of...
Glimmer in heart of darkness
Can’t say who will win this time but you surely can’t miss the first stirrings for a new deal in...
Emergency’s Reality Czech
A second trip to Prague provokes a second thought on Emergency: why do we forget the strangling of our economic...
Inside a comic-book coup
Why the Maldivian president needs to be eternally grateful to an unsung Indian frigate captain Earlier this week some newspapers...
Stirrings in a Hopeless Land
Nobody goes to Bihar too often. Actually, nobody goes there unless he or she has to. No surprise then that...
Mr Dixit, I Presume
The first time I met J.N. ‘Mani’ Dixit, in September 1985, I had not particularly given him a reason for...
Seizure in the heartland
If you thought our politics was now driven by bijli sadak pani, hop into a car, switch gears, adjust your...
Poll notes of a limo liberal
View from Rajasthan’s ground zero: How Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory If you laugh at parachute reporters,...