Ajoy Bose

Never before has a weaker Congress been hit by harsher opprobrium

Don’t count Mayawati out yet. Politics makes for strange bedfellows.

The book’s banality may have been deliberate, knowing how zealously the Congess guards the veil of enigma around Sonia.

Provides some fascinating vignettes about life lived by the Delhi elite in the two decades before and after Independence

Jagjivan Ram’s high point: Opposing the Emergency

Kancha Ilaiah’s Homeric rage and his idea of a grand armada that would sink Hinduism holds little water

An unsatisfying book ignores the context, the contradictions and the persistence of Laloo Yadav