NATIONAL INTEREST

Much stirring prose has already been written by much better writers on Barack Obama’s victory speech at Chicago, so I...

While the entire nation watches in disgust the deal-making and horse- trading that mark the current turn in our politics,...

Memory may usually play funny games with one’s mind, but sometimes it can be deadly serious. As it was with...

Ever since the Karnataka defeat, the Congress party’s closet-coterie Rajya Sabha warriors have been inventing new excuses. One of these...

How would you describe the electoral contest in Karnataka? Whether it is a two-way or a three-way fight would depend...

Our prime ministers, in fact most of our most important leaders, rarely visit the Northeast. And even when they do,...

On the eve of the 2002 Gujarat elections, I had stuck my neck out to predict, somewhat audaciously, that if...

So, what do the buccaneers of the Left do now? Just when they were savouring the completion of their conquest...

Two events on the same day this week, in the two most distant metros in the country, each involving an...

One of the abiding memories of my reporting years belongs to the era of another, bloodier, war on terror. Rajiv...

Most people of my generation got their first exposure to the complexities of national politics through the dark phase of...

The answer to the question why most politicians in India do not get re-elected, is a no-brainer. It’s because of...