NATIONAL INTEREST

Confessions of a Shakhahari

Raised on a diet of RSS pedagogy at a Shishu Mandir, the writer looks at what it means when Nagpur...

Broken politics, constant combatants

Why India Inc and party persons dare not share their anxieties with Narendra Modi or Sonia Gandhi – and how...

Why we should let Aurangzeb Road be

A short history of Independent India’s strange priorities through a tour of Delhi’s avenues   Successive generations of Indians go...

Three officers and their lost cause

Why India needs to set norms for tell-alls by security-bureaucrats. Speaking at the Indian Women’s Press Corps in New Delhi...

Speaking truth to the great orator

Modi is by far India’s most powerful, domineering, instinctive-and very popular-political figure. Why then is his government floundering?    ...

If Lallu is brighter than Mohan…?

The question that found solution to India’s most difficult political problem: too much stability   The quaint headline of this...

Pass the baton, adversary’s turn

In a week of polarised politics, Naga accord is a reminder of Indian establishment’s continuity of big national issues  ...

Everything that Dr Kalam was not

And yet why a billion-plus Indians hail him as their most loved leader in decades It’s a reckless way to...

Masaan and the new middle India

Change that 1991 started is now, in the 25th year of reform, trickling into the small town and the rapidly...