NATIONAL INTEREST

In a National Interest published in the winter of 2007 (‘If Modi wins on Sunday’*), I had anticipated the implications...

It is generally accepted wisdom that the Indira Gandhi years were the pinkest in India’s economic history. Also, that her...

But for two assurances, even someone as reckless as me would never dare to use this story to explain the...

In this season of Internet jokes on politics, let me also make a humble contribution. If Chetan Bhagat were to...

India’s democratic depth was evident this past week as the entire establishment, left and right, came together to congratulate Kailash...

This week’s National Interest is about two things I am least qualified to write about: cinema and the insurgency in...

In the run-up to the 2009 national election campaign, when Prakash Karat was taking away UPA allies and collecting all...

This bit of wisdom I learnt at school, even if it was not at my own. It was at New...

This must be our most over-analysed set of by-elections ever. One obvious reason is that these relieve us from the...

Ordinary lives are cheap in India. So all government has to do in name of disaster management is to dole...

A busy foreign policy season first up in a new prime minister’s tenure is a gift, a bit like cricket’s...

The BJP-led NDA will fight elections together and we will have a common minimum programme (CMP). We will sit together...