CPI went into terminal decline when it compromised with the Congress in 1969-1970. In 2016, CPM is being destroyed because it abandoned principle in search of a cheap return ticket to power.

Men such as Arjan Singh faced death in combat, and death retreated.

BJP victory could be the state’s best chance to resolve the immigration issue.

Some good news from the studios, some of them may have piped down

The apex court’s ruling against a state domicile requirement for a Rajya Sabha seat must be challenged

M.L. Sondhi’s career trajectory is instructive. The political party must move out of the campus.

Our punitive impulses are an expression of deep institutional failure.

Socialists need to regroup to fight authoritarianism and communalism

America’s leaders have drawn attention to a deep paradox of Japan’s nuclear story

To effectively participate in the post-Paris climate negotiations, India must first ratify the Paris agreement

MPs must not run down a law that promises a more informed citizenry

But can democracy survive without dissent?

If the party and its allies lose in all four state elections, as opinion polls predict, the political dialogue will shift towards discussing the end of the Congress era

Many who had voted for the BJP are looking for alternatives, as they did in the elections in Delhi and Bihar.

Never before has anyone questioned an Indian Prime Minister’s educational certificates.

As someone who lives in Maharashtra, I can report that in this state nothing has changed since a BJP chief minister took power two years ago.

Thanks to the spurt in the number of TV news channels in Tamil Nadu — there are over 16 channels, including 10 owned by politicians — there is a new sense of glasnost in the state.

The domicile policy in Jharkhand is a contentious issue

Pakistani newspapers begin to talk honestly about Hafiz Saeed and his operations

Neither pollution nor congestion significantly decreased as they did during the January experiment. An enduring solution lies in scaling up the smaller, successful programmes.

Did anyone say assembly elections in the state saw violence?

A 19th-century commission report is instructive — it argued against bans, distinguished between private and social costs, highlighted externalities.

Meanwhile on Uttarakhand, the BJP sputtered and stalled.

The “credibility of (the) fourth pillar of democracy” is being questioned, the editorial argues, and talks about the “‘we’ versus ‘they’ approach of the electronic media” in “Ishrat Jahan case to the chopper scam”.