Saba Naqvi

Two books touch on the shortcomings of the larger-than-life icon

The BJP looks the better organised in the coming Bihar polls. Can Nitish do a Delhi on them?

The Patels are just too forward on all fronts to get ‘backward’ status, and other conundrums from the Great Indian Reservation potboiler

A PM who conquers foreign shores but loses the plot at home

A regular column on the essential buzz

A rock-solid sorority that holds the flock together. But their fight is not only of gender. It’s a universal community they serve.

Arundhati Roy on what shaped her, what moves her, and what gets her to start writing.

Two Muslims passed on July 30, made larger-than-life in death

Politics over Lalitgate may yet shape the future Modi cabinet

In bad news season, the BJP is left to wonder on how it all unravelled so soon

The Saudis do not really care about human beings as they only care about their version of Islam.

The hanging of Yakub Memon, reminds some of us of the deeply flawed nature of the Indian police, investigative agencies and politicians.

What are the implications of the ouster of the two founding members?

Looking at how the Amit Shah case has been managed, the possibility of other fake encounter cases falling apart is very real.

'The Man India Awaits' has been seriously challenged for that role by this aam admi with a cap and muffler, who broke out into an old Hindi film song about brotherhood

The Congress shows a steady march to imminent eclipse in the 2014 elections

The face of a woman who died so young could indeed become an irritant to the ambitious plans of the men who rule Gujarat.

Ultimately, it is not the political class or the police who can offer solutions. If some youngsters who have been following this story can be sensitised, we would have achieved something in the urban space.

There is no gag order, insists Digvijay Singh while reiterating that "Mamata was immature." With his vanvaas coming to an end, he says he will be "happy to contest the next Lok Sabha elections"

My favourite line in the coup story is "the PM was informed at the crack of dawn on January 17"