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Pass the baton, adversary’s turn

In a week of polarised politics, Naga accord is a reminder of Indian establishment's continuity of big national issues.

Masaan and the new middle India

Change that 1991 started is now, in the 25th year of reform, trickling into the small town and the rapidly rurbanising village. Indian cinema, or...

Art of big picture leadership

Can Modi take a cue from friend Barack and prove he does not fear to negotiate with his own adversaries?

Life, mind and times of Lalit Modi

He refuses to accept the reality that politicians hang together in the BCCI-and they win.

Why rural India matters

Agriculture's share in economic GDP may be below 15 per cent. In the electoral and political equivalent of GDP, it is about 60 per cent.

Abki Baar, U-turn sarkar

In his first year, Modi has shown boldness and pragmatism, whatever the static over cow meat, ghar wapsi, and has successfully pulled his government from the set RSS/BJP construct of ideas.

Reclaiming the road

Why the Salman saga is also about the sidewalk and roads that everybody deserves to share, irrespective of his net-worth or stardom.

Fear of buying

India's military purchases, or lack thereof, show that Jaswant Singh was right — there is no military strategic doctrine.

Big cities, capital drain

Our biggest cities have continued to rot away in the last decade, but why should the future of India's urbanisation policies remain bleak too.

The man who got it right: Poet, pragmatist, always political

Atal Bihari Vajpayee's greatest, durable legacy is to show that India is best governed with a large heart.

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.