Extremism Flawed visionVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New DelhiAt the root of the UPA government’s continued failure to defeat left-wing extremism is the absence of a clear assessment of the ground reality and a
Political shake-outVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi & LYLA BAVADAM in Mumbai Heads rolled in New Delhi and Maharashtra as the Congress scurried to retrieve lost ground.
On the boilVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi LUV PURI in Jammu Inter-regional tensions are at the core of the protests over the Amarnath land issue.
Nuclear standoffVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi The fate of the Union government hangs in the balance as the ruling UPA and the Left parties differ strongly on the India-U.S. nuclear deal.
At a crossroadsS. VISWANATHAN in chennai VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New DelhiThe Dalit leadership faces a credibility crisis in the absence of a radical political vision.
Troubled partyVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New DelhiAs Congress leaders meet for the AICC plenary in Hyderabad, a series of mistakes and miscalculations raise doubts about their sagacity to survive in t
BATTLES WITHINVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New DelhiThe attacks directed against BJP president L.K. Advani for his utterances in praise of M.A. Jinnah in Pakistan are not going to end with his resignati
Lalu vs NDA, againVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New DelhiThe NDA has once again started a campaign against its favourite target, Lalu Prasad, on the assumption that the Railway Minister is weakened by the el
The wages of disunityVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New DelhiThe reverses suffered by the constituents of the Congress-led UPA in the Assembly elections can be traced back to their inability to forge a united fr
The churning in BiharVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New DelhiThe February Assembly elections in the State have thrown up the prospects of secular formations occupying both the government and the Opposition space
Election battlesVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New DelhiAs Bihar moves close to Assembly elections, the ruling RJD and its president Laloo Prasad Yadav are in the thick of a controversy over alleged violati
A battle for BiharVENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi and Patna The public squabble between Laloo Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan, which has terribly embarrassed the United Progressive Alliance government, is a m
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
