Harish Khare

With AAP’s win, the Modi-Shah monopoly stands challenged

The tigers of the media and the corporate world find themselves caught in the unsparing, irreverent gaze of Vinod Mehta

‘No fire in the belly’ and ‘no appetite for a political fight’—with a leader diagnosed thus, the Congress let Modi have it his way

It will take far more than a regime change to erase Nehru’s legacy

He reinstituted the value of inclusive growth and governance open to scrutiny. He institutionalised the voice of civil society.

The Modi campaign is a copycatting of US right-wing tactics

It’s still possible for the Congress to reposition itself despite the dynastic clamps hampering it. But it will take more than Rahul’s petulance.

Since 1991, India too is seeing what western democracies are facing: a standoff between the state and the market.

The Congress is left to count its gains; Modi’s success infuses a certain piquancy into the choices the NDA has to make in the run-up to 2014

A journalistic memoir is gimlet-eyed about the Emergency, but drools before a cabal of indifference and preferment