Columns

Modi versus the rest

Travelling into Gujarat during election time is like entering the kingdom of an absolute monarch.…

A polarising figure

‘Don’t insult me by calling me a politician. I am a political cartoonist!’ warned the…

Advantage Modi

Predicting elections can be injurious to the health of journalists and pollsters, more so when…

Stuck in a time warp

Nitin Gadkari isn’t quite known to mind his language. A few weeks after he took…

From rumble to a roar

At a seminar in Delhi a few years ago, a soft-spoken, petite woman in a…

The topi has to fit

In the early 1990s, when TN Seshan as Chief Election Commissioner was the flavour of…

Playing to the gallery

Dear Mamata-di, Let me at the very outset express a sneaking admiration for the manner…

An ugly parochialism

Dear Raj, This is the second open letter I am writing to you since, as…

Douse the fire, now

For a city which has seen so much bloodletting in recent years, it is rather…

Tyranny of distance

In an emotionally surcharged and polarised polity, even riot politics can become a zero-sum game.…