Modi has now recognised the challenge Swamy poses. He has moved to contain him. But this is not the end of the story, just the end of the beginning.

The aristocratic Nath is the senior most Congress parliamentarian, having been elected for a record nine times.

The great Indian dream in those times was a government job. Private enterprise and profit were dirty words. Entrepreneurs who produced more than their licences permitted were punished.

'The BJP was voted into office by 31 per cent of the people who took part in the voting... I am sure, the Prime Minister has often pondered on how to wean some of the 69 per cent to his side.'

Predicament of the Ahmadis in Pakistan points to the dangerous drive to ‘cleanse’ and ‘purify’

FDI in food retail has the potential to give the much needed push to agriculture

It is desirable. Yet the insistence on it must be interrogated

Anxieties arising from the collapse of the welfare state lie behind the vote.

In football, the English miss the goalposts. In European politics, they miss the point.

Why Subramanian Swamy’s real target is not Raghuram Rajan or Arvind Subramanian.

From kidnapping to communal riots, there is a common link that drives criminals.

On Monday, Arnab Goswami was about as hard as melted butter

India’s bid for NSG membership illustrated a deeper malaise: The inability to think through foreign policy in granular detail and create the capacities to execute it.

Jharkhand unshackles the tribal hero, but who will rescue its poorly-paid women health workers?

The editorial in Organiser, “Shirshasana with political glasses on,” comments on those leaders who “preferred either to boycott Yoga Day or uproot it from the Bharatiya roots”. It says “some people with so-called secular and anti-Modi glasses chose to stand on their head in protest” against the Yoga Day. The Bihar government “distanced itself from […]

The anti-Modi, anti-BJP and anti-government frenzy is increasing proportionately to the expansion of the BJP across the country.

The Narendra Modi government is not easily rattled by disapproving noises.

Providing basic income guarantee to all citizens makes a lot of sense intuitively. But the implementation cost in any country, including India, would be prohibitive.

Panikkar wrote plays and poetry, essays and theoretical texts on the music of Kerala called Sopanam

She learnt to intermingle with ordinary Dalits, talk to them in their language, share their feelings, and become a part of their movement in order to develop the capacity to see things from their perspective.

Sadly, however, that is overwhelmingly not the case, with the old English rule of “man” including “women” and indeed, all of humankind continuing to remain in currency.

Substantive pieces of circumstantial and documentary evidence appear to have been overlooked in the Gulberg Society verdict.

Raghuram Rajan’s failure to get along with the Central government and secure a second term reminds old timers of the case of his father R Govindarajan, a former additional secretary, R&AW.

The notion that joining a multi-country union is loss of independence is hard to credit. But ultimately that is the message the people have given.