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Saturday, December 13, 2025
TopicAtal Bihari Vajpayee

Topic: Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘Ab ki baar, Modi sarkar slogan was born in BJP’s election war room’

As a Twitter storm rages, party’s campaign managers say the catchline for 2014 Lok Sabha election was a result of their collective brainstorming.

Rahul Gandhi’s US tour can’t change fact that Congress has no clarity on its strategy

There is no grand re-organisation or an ideological rethink in the Congress Party that a stunning electoral debacle like 2014 should have prompted.

NDA is in coma, things were different when Vajpayee was PM: Sanjay Raut

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

Vajpayee showed us how to deal with China’s one slice at-a-time policy

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

Kashmir’s Broken Cycle of Talks

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

“Museum wahin banayenge!”

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

When proxy comes to shove

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

Confessions of a Shakhahari

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.

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.

Atal Modi vs Rajiv Rahul

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.

On Camera

India’s aviation crisis is all about too big to tame

Nobody is safe in a market where competition is stunted and choice limited. For the industry, meaningful reform will have to start with the government itself.

South rising, west slipping: India’s export map is being redrawn, shows RBI data

Data shows re-alignment in India’s exports, with Tamil Nadu & Telangana posting strong growth in 2024-25 as traditional heavyweights Gujarat & Maharashtra see declines. Gujarat still leads, though.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.