The Modi-Rahul face off is good democracy The forthcoming electoral contest of 2014 is fast passing into pop culture. The Battle of the "Bachelors" ...
07:04 AM, Apr 10, 2013
India's two main national parties are facing distinctly contrarian leadership dilemmas: while the BJP is confronted with managing the vaulting ambitions of its multiple leaders, ...
12:04 AM, Mar 22, 2013
It is not without reason that the BJP in recent times has been referred to as the 'Hindu Divided Family'. Impressed by the speech given ...
12:05 AM, Mar 08, 2013
The controversy generated over the invite extended to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to address the India Economic Forum at The Wharton School of the ...
06:57 PM, Mar 05, 2013
There is nothing journalists and the viewers love more than a 'big fight'. A Roger Federer is a great tennis player, but the legend is ...
12:15 AM, Jan 25, 2013
One-day cricket is fighting hard for survival. And this truth is reflected much from the myriad rule changes undertaken by the ICC every couple of ...
12:38 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Players are often selected on potential, not for what they might bring to a team immediately, but the difference they could make in a couple ...
02:14 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest player to have batted in coloured clothes. For nearly two decades after he made his one-day international debut, Tendulkar was ...
10:52 AM, Dec 25, 2012
So Modi has indeed vanquished all threats and odds to score a resounding win, proving that pro-incumbency can beat anti-incumbency! The 2012 Gujarat elections ...
11:21 AM, Dec 21, 2012
There is a Goliath called Modi looming over the state of Gujarat, in real life as well as in 3-D, who is once again poised ...
12:59 AM, Dec 19, 2012
Travelling into Gujarat during election time is like entering the kingdom of an absolute monarch. Never before has a state election been so completely dominated ...
12:14 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Muslims are seeking a new narrative in Gujarat beyond victimhood The land of historic Gandhian satyagrahas like Kheda, Bardoli and the Dandi March, Gujarat ...
08:37 AM, Dec 12, 2012
The debates surrounding Gujarat has in the last decade revolved perhaps a little too much around Narendra Modi. His followers have tried to portray him ...
03:37 PM, Dec 07, 2012
It's interesting how most recent political developments are building up towards a scenario, where much like the ongoing Gujarat elections, even the 2014 LS elections ...
12:45 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Two decades is almost a third of the journey that independent India has covered since 1947. It's been a long journey, chequered with events that ...
12:39 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Predicting elections can be injurious to the health of journalists and pollsters, more so when there is still a month to go before voting. Even ...
12:10 AM, Nov 16, 2012
It's open season on 'modern' women A fashionable cultural conservatism dominates a land in the throes of the seismic shocks of liberalisation and westernisation. ...
09:31 AM, Nov 09, 2012
Shock rhetoric is an innate attribute of the beast of politics. In campaigns under the 24 hour media scanner, they do a great deal to ...
12:10 AM, Oct 18, 2012
My mother said the most bizarre thing to me this afternoon over a very elaborate Bengali lunch. Claiming she had read it in the papers. ...
05:54 PM, Sep 27, 2012
The other day my son was learning how to cycle - to put it right, the act of balancing. "If you don't pay attention, the ...
01:00 PM, Aug 30, 2012
