NATIONAL INTEREST

The results are in

One remarkable feature of this election is how punditry has been entirely hijacked by pollsters, psephologists and statisticians. No quibble...

New Delhi, New Voter

You ask somebody from the Congress or the BJP what will happen in the coming elections and the answer is...

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...