There’s a BJP-Cong Obama fan club - Left isn’t impressed

Wednesday 5 November '08

BJP’s Ravi Shankar Prasad. Congress’s Veerappa Moily, Salman Khursheed and Margaret Alva. Lok Janshakti Party’s Ram Vilas Paswan.

ON THE SADHVI TRAIL

Sunday 2 November '08

It is as if in the 15 years since Pragya Singh left Bhind after becoming an ABVP fulltimer, for Ujjain, Indore, Bhopal and Surat, this musty town has not moved at all.

‘In India, the greater the intensity of religious practice, the greater the support for democracy’

Friday 24 October '08

Alfred C. Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at the School of International and Public Affairs and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy...

Chiru Rajyam

Sunday 19 October '08

It's 10:15 a.m. on Day 6 of the praja ankita yatra. Andhra Pradesh’s ‘Megastar’-turned-politician stands atop a squat platform mounted on the roof of a specially designed campaign vehicle.

Cong chooses poll ad agency, picks n-deal as campaign opener

Thursday 9 October '08

The Congress spin team feels the party needs to be more aggressive and communicative on the nuclear deal.

Cong chooses poll ad agency, picks n-deal as campaign opener

Thursday 9 October '08

The Congress has decided to launch its election ad campaign with the civilian nuclear deal. The deal will be the focus of the first batch of political ads by Crayons, the Delhi-based advertising agency that beat eight other agencies, including co-finalist JWT, to the Congress account last week.

HSGPC demand about identity as much as politics

Tuesday 30 September '08

The demand for a separate gurdwara management body for Haryana reflects a wider pattern of the politicisation of institutionalised religion, and its growing regionalisation

Dissidence brewing in neighbourhood, SGPC feels the heat

Monday 29 September '08

The 30-day deadline set by a Sikh body, demanding a separate SGPC for Haryana, is to expire on October 7. What is the stand-off about? What is at stake?

123, in agreement

Wednesday 13 August '08

The new thing about the new third front? Its political strategy is mimicked by BJP and Congress

THE UP FAL OUT

Sunday 20 July '08

The Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement was the fulcrum on which the relationship of the Congress with the Samajwadi Party see-sawed. But it was Mayawati, more than the Left, that forced UPA to change its partner

Left, RJD natural allies, says Lalu

Friday 11 July '08

On Thursday evening, in his Rail Bhavan office, Lalu Prasad waves a scenario in the air.

At Dalit meet, call for alliance forged on dard ka rishta

Monday 7 July '08

Is there an automatic and deep solidarity between Dalits and Muslims, waiting to be tapped? Or will it take more than that...

I believe distance between SP, UPA must be covered: Paswan

Saturday 5 July '08

Ram Vilas Paswan did not wait to see the turn of the political crisis in Delhi.

They do math on the masses

Saturday 7 June '08

The rise of the election strategist shows up the deliberate incoherence that otherwise dominates politics

THE EBB TIDE

Friday 14 December '07

It’s evening and at the first-floor BJP office in the crowded market in Jetpur, party workers unwind amid the constant ringing of cellphones.

To understand why Parivar’s frowning at Modi, look at this Togadia on a swing

Sunday 9 December '07

To get to Vithalbhai Togadia’s house, take the narrow road that winds between cotton fields to Sajantimba village...

Day after EC notice, Modi ‘talks’ to Soniaben

Saturday 8 December '07

He speaks of himself in the third person. He breaks his speech several times to ask questions of his audience, exhorting them to respond.

Camps ready, but logic is fuzzy

Friday 7 December '07

Saurashtra has always dominated Gujarat’s electoral process as it contributes 58 seats to the state’s overall tally of 182.

Dutch delight

Sunday 18 November '07

From brash bikers on the roads to picnics in a Parliament courtyard, from the tracery of canals to the angst of immigrant identity, we bring you snapshots from the Netherlands

Nuclear Nehru

Thursday 1 November '07

Is the prime minister resigned or resigning? Where precisely does the nuclear deal stand? Will there be mid-term elections.

Going Dutch

Tuesday 16 October '07

When Crown Princess Maxima accompanies her mother-in-law Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on a state visit to India...

‘Karat most powerful man in India today...I didn’t say woman’

Saturday 4 August '07

“Prakash Karat clearly is the most powerful man in India today. He can dictate the Presidency and Vice-Presidency.” And then, after a pause and a twinkle, “Remember I said most important man, I didn’t say woman”.

A celebrity of his time

Saturday 7 July '07

As he talks to the media, Amitabh Bachchan reveals a few things about himself, and some things about us

Why both BJP, Cong wary: Meenas and Gurjjars aren’t secure votebanks

Saturday 2 June '07

In Rajasthan, the Gurjjar-Meena tension has crossed the danger mark. But neither the ruling BJP in the state nor the Congress that rules the Centre appears to be able to say or do anything to break the impasse.

When radicals quote the law

Tuesday 29 May '07

In the so-called panthic crisis are signs that there’s no returning to ’80s style extremism