Festivals and other religious and community occasions are increasingly imposed on all those within earshot.

If India is deliberately risking American lives in retaliation for an arrest, this is an act of great stupidity.

It is hardly the case that state, its decisive leader can solve all problems, according to Pawar’s own reckoning.

What makes India difficult to survey electorally is complicated nature of its politics, deep fragmentation of voters.

Even in states where Modi is not a factor, he helps the BJP in a few ways.

Tehelka is too closely associated with its proprietor-editor to come out of scandal without loss of credibility.

To listen to Rahul is to be told that we are sunk as a nation. That may be true.

If opinion polls about the AAP are right, we are in line for a total reversal of fortunes for the BJP in the metros.

Patel gave Muslim leaders in Constituent Assembly opportunity to themselves take back demand for separate electorates.

UP will vote along communal lines in coming elections, just as it did in the aftermath of Babri Masjid’s demolition.