Do minorities matter?
Hamid Ansari's concern over unease among Indian minorities came just after Pakistan swore in its first Hindu cabinet minister in 20 years. Truth is contrary to this clickbait.
CV and stature
Whether Ram Nath Kovind has the credentials to be India's 14th Rashtrapati or not is now a non-question.
HINDUTVA TO HINDUTVA-PLUS
If political history could be divided into epochs, Indira Gandhi's began in 1969, when she split the Congress, and ended in 1989, when Rajiv Gandhi lost power.
Maximum Modi, maximum opportunity
The description “tectonic shift” was first used for election results by Union Cabinet minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. It has since gathered currency among pundits and partisans.
Desperation and aspiration in UP's east
Badlands is one of those familiar Americanisms, like ballpark, Wild West and gentrification that feature in our usage more as malapropisms.
Burdened with Indiranomics
The most fascinating insight notebandi provides is to the Narendra Modi government's approach to exercise of state power, political and economic ideology.
Mammaries of the socialist raj
The people caught most unprepared by the PM's strike on currency are the bureaucrats. The problem: They've been there, done that.
Soft power, hard battles
The night before Atal Bihari Vajpayee was to leave for Lahore on his historic bus ride in February 1999, his office was frantic. How to reach film star Dev Anand in the middle of the night?
August 17, 2017
Do minorities matter?
Hamid Ansari's concern over unease among Indian minorities came just after Pakistan swore in its first Hindu cabinet minister in 20 years. Truth is contrary to this clickbait.
June 25, 2017
CV and stature
Whether Ram Nath Kovind has the credentials to be India's 14th Rashtrapati or not is now a non-question.
March 28, 2017
HINDUTVA TO HINDUTVA-PLUS
If political history could be divided into epochs, Indira Gandhi's began in 1969, when she split the Congress, and ended in 1989, when Rajiv Gandhi lost power.
March 15, 2017
Maximum Modi, maximum opportunity
The description “tectonic shift” was first used for election results by Union Cabinet minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. It has since gathered currency among pundits and partisans.
March 7, 2017
Desperation and aspiration in UP's east
Badlands is one of those familiar Americanisms, like ballpark, Wild West and gentrification that feature in our usage more as malapropisms.
December 19, 2016
Burdened with Indiranomics
The most fascinating insight notebandi provides is to the Narendra Modi government's approach to exercise of state power, political and economic ideology.
December 3, 2016
Mammaries of the socialist raj
The people caught most unprepared by the PM's strike on currency are the bureaucrats. The problem: They've been there, done that.
October 25, 2016
Soft power, hard battles
The night before Atal Bihari Vajpayee was to leave for Lahore on his historic bus ride in February 1999, his office was frantic. How to reach film star Dev Anand in the middle of the night?
October 18, 2016
Kitney Pakistani thhey?
You can frame this question as when did Indian journalism self-destruct, when did it begin its self destruction, or, is it on its way to self-destruction?
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