How Modi, Shah have shred Vajpayee & Jana Sangh’s principled opposition to ILP in Northeast
Vajpayee & Jana Sangh fought Nehru for quarantining fellow Indians in Northeast under Inner Line Permit. Their successors have strengthened & expanded it.
His decency set him apart — why we can’t forget IK Gujral, India’s truly accidental PM
Remembering Inder Kumar Gujral, the soft-spoken but tough PM who had among the shortest & rockiest of all tenures, on his 100th birth anniversary.
Streetfighter ban gaya gentleman: How Arvind Kejriwal has become a changed politician
Arvind Kejriwal’s retreat from the fight with Narendra Modi is total. His focus is local issues & Delhi elections and this isn’t defeatism but excellent politics.
Modi has finished Pakistan’s ‘unfinished business’ of Partition
Article 370 is gone, now it’s time to fight the good fight — for rights of Kashmiris as fellow Indians and restoration of commerce & political activity in J&K.
Dear PM Modi, you’re spending too much time on Twitter and have got the media wrong
A vast majority of the media dotingly supports PM Modi. And while in power, he should be prepared to face some heat at least.
The mess in India’s higher judiciary is, sadly, of its own making
The judiciary has become cocooned while being the supreme force for transparency elsewhere. The complainant against CJI Gogoi has laid bare this hypocrisy.
Modi shouldn’t trivialise nuclear weapons. His Diwali taunt at Pakistan is loose talk
Understated responsibility and strategic maturity has served India brilliantly. Now it shouldn’t lapse into the Pakistan style of nuclear loose talk.
Wing Commander Abhinandan being shot down is the real Rafale scandal
PAF had outranged and outgunned India’s best, and it’s only because of IAF’s training, awareness and some luck that Pakistan’s 27 February mission failed.
India has called Pakistan’s nuclear bluff again, but Modi cannot become complacent
Pakistan and the world will have to keep the redefined red lines in mind. But India can’t be complacent, because Pakistan’s compulsive bad habits return.
Hold the outrage over Modi hugging MBS, check these facts first
Narendra Modi has been wise not to let Pakistan and Pulwama ruin ties with Saudi Arabia. And he's only pursuing a Manmohan Singh initiative energetically.
YourTurn
All political talk in India is obsessing over 2024. The real deal is 2025
Much was made of Mohan Bhagwat's meeting with media editors recently, but not too many took note of his talks with book publishers a few months ago.
Jalandhar’s Rs 2,000-cr sports goods industry says Covid shut 40% units, govt says no distress
ThePrint visited Jalandhar, where workers and business owners in the sporting goods industry are sending distress signals. Government officials say concerns are overblown.
Defence
Why Rajnath raised China’s Ladakh aggression at 2+2 dialogue with Beijing’s friend Russia
India and Russia’s maiden 2+2 dialogue comes at a time when New Delhi’s ties with Washington are on an upswing while its oldest ally — Moscow — gets closer to Beijing.
Yes, UPA’s dead. But here’s what Mamata, PK are saying about Congress & why that’s right too
Even in its second successive annihilation by BJP, Congress retained a solid block of 20% votes. That’s why all of BJP’s victims want the Congress at the core of their challenge.