It is remarkable that people say India should have a smaller government. Numbers show the problem to be the opposite.

The baniya is excellent at accumulating capital but not particularly good at giving it away.

The way to understand the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is to see it as India’s party of anger.

Under Modi in Gujarat consultation has ended. Modi decides something and instructs the bureaucracy to implement it.

I have seen the ability of Modi to pick and choose, empower able technocrats & bureaucrats. He has keen eye for that.

Modi's power comes from the cadre of both the BJP and the RSS and the groundswell that has opened up the system.

If BJP-Janata Dal alliance did not exist, BJP would be poorer for it, because castes it brings to the table are small.

Through all the years that Modi built his image at the cost of others in the BJP, Advani was silent.

Congress strategy in the state has been not to insist on full-dress secularism but to ignore what was going on there.

Over the years, especially after Gavaskar retired, I knew that my hero was not perfect.