Pranab Mukherjee's calculated 'misdemeanour' gives me the perfect excuse, or news peg, to disclose a double favour granted to me by the RSS that my parents gratefully accepted.
We need to wait till May 2019 to see if India requires the services of a man capable of managing contradictions, and clubbing nationalism and patriotism with plurality.
At every step, veteran Congressman Pranab Mukherjee seems to have been humiliated and eventually sidelined by those at the helm of the party by sole virtue of accident of birth.
The Congress was attacking Pranab Mukherjee for attending the RSS function. But just as he ended his speech, the Congressmen began re-claiming the former president as one of their own.
'We derive our strength from tolerance. We accept and respect our pluralism,' former President Pranab Mukherjee said at a valedictory function of future RSS pracharaks in Nagpur Thursday.
India cannot be blasé about change in any important capital in the world. Let's look at five key areas where US policy matters for India and how it may vary between Harris and Trump.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
Politics one does not understand, ideology one does not possess, but governance and the economy are the twin pillars on which continuing, sustainable electoral success rests. Ignore them completely at your peril. 2019 will deliver that sermon.
Politics one does not understand, ideology one does not possess, but governance and the economy are the twin pillars on which continuing, sustainable electoral success rests. Ignore them completely at your peril. 2019 will deliver that sermon.