Topic: Indira Gandhi

When Rajiv Gandhi started he could do no wrong. Halfway through his five years, he could do no right. His tenure had many chastening lessons in how mega mandates can make you smug and self-destruct. His record should be essential reading for those with brute majorities now, from Arvind Kejriwal, Narendra Modi and on to Vasundhara Raje, Naveen Patnaik and Mamata Banerjee. Shekhar Gupta

The release of a book on the late prime minister gives an opportunity to examine her legacy and the relevance of its lessons today. AADYA SINHA

The Modi government shows a fascination for rejecting everything Nehru stood for, while embracing his daughter's political economy. 

The people caught most unprepared by the PM's strike on currency are the bureaucrats. The problem: They've been there, done that.

India is complacent if not complicit as in 1975-77. Dangers are bigger now as we have a clear external enemy, strong economy and feckless opposition.

Why RSS/BJP's war against Nehru & heirs is as cussed as it is revealing about their lack of alternative heroes.

The question that found solution to India's most difficult political problem: too much stability

In my book, one of the first tell-tale symptoms of a government losing its nerve is when it starts attacking news media.

Why I call the emergency a university of democratisation: just take a look at its major graduates, right up to Narendra Modi.

While Indira Gandhi has been deservedly given a place in history, could it be that we have not yet fully appreciated her intellect and prescience on economic and foreign policies.