One remarkable feature of this election is how punditry has been entirely hijacked by pollsters, psephologists and statisticians. No quibble...
NATIONAL INTEREST
New Delhi, New Voter
You ask somebody from the Congress or the BJP what will happen in the coming elections and the answer is...
Postal savings instruments to be dematerialised
In a move revolutionalising the small-savings market, the department of posts (DoP) has, in principle, decided to dematerialise postal savings...
Havildar Shinde, Sergeant Romero
If we’re as sensitive to Shinde’s needs as the Pentagon was to Romero’s, we’d save many lives The unexpectedly large...
Politics in past tense
There could be a simpler explanation as to why this week’s ‘National Interest’ does not talk about the state of...
The HMT Advantage
From Kapil to Kalpana, Karnal to Cape Canaveral: Hail the rise of middle India While so many state governments rush...
Pseudo-campaignism
Despite all the confusion caused by opinion polls, exit polls and whatever the Gujarat throws up on Sunday there is...
Govt’s one foot, several mouths
IT seems that one of our former ministers visited Washington and caused so much confusion because of his pronounced Bengali...
The Modi Magnifier
The question in Gujarat is not who will win, or by how much. The first has been a foregone conclusion...
Making an ass of the taxpayer
In the usually sad and tragic Hindi movies of yore, often a Johnny Walker or Mehmood appeared anytime the going...
Temple Complex
The more enduring images of the night of terror at Akshardham are, actually, more stirring than tragic. My own favourite...
The tinpot looks for a kettle
It’s said in New York that the September session of the UN General Assembly is when leaders from the Third...
