Narendra Modi
A few years ago, I was sitting next to Manohar Parrikar on a flight. The…
Heads of our soldiers are being cut but we are feeding their prime minister chicken…
News channels always face a ‘dharam sankat’ when Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi speak at…
It’s that time of the year: The bells are ringing and carols are being sung.…
There is something toxic in the Delhi air. And no, its not just the deadly…
A year is an eternity in Indian politics: a year ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
In a wonderful television series on the great boxing fights, Joe Frazier is asked on…
It was a picture that perhaps best captured the angularities of Indian secularism: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien in a topi even as Delhi lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung and vice-president Hamid Ansari preferred to be bare-headed. The occasion was an iftaar party organised by the Delhi chief minister. Perhaps Kejriwal and O’Brien (an Anglo-Indian from Kolkata) had taken their cue from Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, who once said, “To run the country, you have to take everyone along … at times, you will have to wear a topi, at times a tilak.”
The only thing certain about Indian politics is its constant edge of uncertainty. If in…
In an age where a film is declared a hit or a flop on the first weekend’s performance, politicians too are finding their ratings being judged in a compressed timeframe. Narendra Modi was elected prime minister for five years, but he has already had to go through a series of early tests: 100 days, 200 and then 300 days, now his impending first year anniversary have all become occasions for the media to rate his performance. It is almost as if he is facing a constant agni-pariksha.