Topic: Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Shiv Sena leader talks about BJP’s one-upmanship and growing pitch within his party about withdrawing from the BJP-led coalition.

This long-term Chinese strategy is best exemplified by the Middle Kingdom’s step-by-step encroachments into the sea between Vietnam and the Philippines. Manvendra Singh

Calling for a political dialogue has become the default option for politicians and pundits every time the security situation in the Valley worsens. The optics of talks looks intended to be a healing touch in itself and ends up becoming a tactic to buy time. RAMA LAKSHMI

All politics is symbolic, and the BJP is replacing realpolitik with symbolic politics, especially in Ayodhya, by trying to build a museum.

That attack is on Arun Jaitley, but the target is Narendra Modi — so watch the next four weeks to see how the PM responds.

Raised on a diet of RSS pedagogy at a Shishu Mandir, the writer looks at what it means when Nagpur 'takes the class' of the govt.

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

Only two leaders have the strength, appeal & political wherewithal to break the two-decade stalemate in Indian politics with a big new idea: Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi.

Here is one way you can put the life of Brajesh Mishra in context. If you asked the top leadership of this UPA government...

Manmohan Singh is not a mass leader or public speaker to rival Atal Bihari Vajpayee. But what Vajpayee had by way of political instinct, Singh has in intellect.