NATIONAL INTEREST

The Out, Their Rage

Here are the two questions you are most likely to be asked these days: One, when was the last time...

The Great Indian Hijack

The way UPA 2 has lost authority, or what is better described in a wonderful Urdu word that defies fair...

Delhi Disconnect

The rise of regional parties and leaders is no longer news. Last week’s results have brought in two phenomenally strong...

Jantar, Chhu Mantar

As you savour this election verdict, remember the line that the Jantar Mantar candle-light vigilantes so loved to paint on...

My Mother Became Lalitaji

His Lalitaji, the unsmiling housewife who sold you Surf, was inspired by his mother. His Liril girl combined an Indian...

The Great Letdown

There are parallels in the mandates that Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress won in December 1984, and Sonia Gandhi’s UPA in May...

We, The Thieving People

Some questions can have only one answer. For example, is corruption a bloody awful thing? Are you sick and tired...

Media Star

Media baron James Murdoch, who was in India to attend the FICCI Frames Summit, talks to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief...

Minus the Left

Funny we still see 2012 as the most crucial year on way to the big 2014 general election, mainly because...

Constant Congressman

The first time I met Arjun Singh, he was not dealing with a real crisis. It was in Bhopal a...

Lok Sabha, 2014

The resumption of our parliamentary proceedings has coincided with the cricket World Cup. And, at least in the early rounds,...

Thank god for politics

  Just a 90-minute interaction between the prime minister and the captains of electronic media in the country turned our...