New law on quotas: Is the BJP bidding goodbye to economic reforms?

Just as Narendra Modi mocked the Congress on the rural employment scheme by saying ..

Keep politics out of the triple talaq issue

Now comes the hard part for the Congress

Congress needs to position itself differently from BJP

Tweaking data as in an Orwellian world

The British magazine, The Economist, once wrote about the Chinese growth figures being stir-fried. Is India emulating China in keeping ..

Kashmir's mahagathbandhan depends on Mehbooba, Omar

There has been an element of unseemly haste and even recklessness in some of the recent acts of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Such ..

A new chapter in the saga of the Ram temple

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the two "non-electables", to use Finance Minister ..

Government on the backfoot in the CBI affair

It cannot but be politically embarrassing for the Narendra Modi government that the decision to send two squabbling Central Bureau ..

RSS chief sets BJP's electoral agenda

There was never any doubt about the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) anti-minority electoral gambits but the agenda has now been ..

Hopes fading for a 'mahagathbandhan'?

The advent of the festive season has brought good luck for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). After Mayawati's imperious scuttling ..

Does Rahul have what it takes to forge opposition unity?

The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) hope of avoiding the nightmare of a united opposition may well be fulfilled. After K. Chandrashekhar ..

Makeover gambits by RSS, Congress: Are they for real?

Two intriguing exercises in U-turns are on at the moment. While Congress president Rahul Gandhi is trying to rid the Congress of its ..