Congress President Sonia Gandhi,her son and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi deservedly get all the credit for soundly defeating the BJP and the umbrella NDA in LS 2009.

There are different layers in euphoria over the 2009 election mandate and not all of it is economic.

Thank you Rahul for following the path Rajiv did in going out there and sticking to the truth.

LK Advani displayed rare grace and dignity in defeat. He behaved in the finest democratic tradition by announcing his decision to step down as Leader of the Opposition.

As the Congress Party returns to power trouncing its ideological opponents on the right and the left,India will command a lot more political respect on the world stage.

Two years ago,self-styled moral policemen stormed into an exam of the famous Arts Faculty of the Maharaja Sayaji University at Vadodara.

The multiplex revolution,the growing influence of 'NRI' audiences have transformed it beyond recognition. An astonishing array of new talent has emerged,the production is a lot more professionalised.

The issue of backlog in India’s courts has been discussed threadbare. What needs to be done to reduce backlog and improve speed of dispute-resolution is also known.

In tennis's world order,Australia are clubbed with countries in the Asia zone,they refer to their home Slam as the Grand Slam of the Asia-Pacific.

One of these two parties has to go wrong on that fateful day.

I spoke to a few tweens in my neighbourhood,and was shocked to know that their idea of "old classics" was films like DDLJ and KKHH.

It is not often that a nation launches a major military offensive on its own territory at the behest of another.

Can our political parties really afford to adopt intransigent positions towards other political groups?

It is deeply interesting that the dominant visual imagery now being used to characterise Indo-US relations is a “plateau.”

We can be an important part of the nuclear debate,we need to have a position on democracy in Pakistan,and we must have a clearer focus on subcontinental security.

Indian politician has now realized that wars and terror attacks cannot be used as an opposition stick to beat the incumbent.

There is no easy geographical matching of constituencies with districts,with data usually available for the latter,not the former.

If you go by the record of our pollsters in the last five years,you will find they got it wrong as often as they got it right.

All the gloom and doom in Western media about Pak has begun to translate into faster cash-flow from Washington to Islamabad and with far fewer conditions.

The National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector didn’t start it,but it was responsible for a factoid being quoted widely. “At the end of 2004-05,about 836 million or 77 per cent of the population was living below Rs 20 per day.”

There was something morally poignant about the way in which Priyanka handled the question of her father’s assassination.

As the IPL had edged nearer,my self-professed purist friend was growing increasingly frantic over people,and the media,taking 'cricketainment' too seriously.

The choice for the topic this week was between a real-life fairytale and the parliamentary elections.

The shock waves haven't stopped after a British tabloid claimed that Rubina's father Rafiq Qureshi tried to sell her for nearly 300,000 dollars to the tabloid's reporters.

Modi’s biggest worry must be the number of lopsided matches. Twenty20 cricket thrives on photo finishes,but of the six IPL matches until Tuesday night,even one hasn't gone down to the wire.