1. Congress Eyes Muslim Vote

    In a move widely talked about for the past five years but only now coming to fruition, India has introduced [...]

  2. Congress vs Anna Hazare?

    The ruling Congress party yesterday lost all four by-elections it competed in – one for the Lok Sabha (lower house [...]

  3. Hazare – No Saint, But Needed

    Around the world, the non-violent protests against graft led by Anna Hazare are being watched with enormous interest. From London [...]

  4. States and Foreign Policy

    The last few years have seen an interesting dynamic in India’s foreign policy: states influencing, or at least trying to [...]

  5. Anna Hazare Under Fire

    The inevitable has happened. It’s not just the Congress that is opposing Anna Hazare’s crusade for setting up a completely [...]

  6. What Turkey Can Teach India

    Turkey’s recent election was interesting for a number of reasons – including what it says about politics in India. Turkey’s centre-right [...]

  7. Marxism Liberated in India

    In his latest book, How to Change the World, historian Eric Hobsbawm says that ‘the era of communist regimes and [...]

  8. A Sad, Deafening Silence

    Sometime towards the end of last year, it really did seem that all the whistleblowing and rabble rousing over the [...]

  9. Sonia Gandhi’s Stock Rises

    Sonia Gandhi has managed a feat unrivalled by any Congress leader since the party was born in Mumbai, back in [...]

  10. Rahul Gandhi Off the Hook

    Last week, I wrote that Congress Party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi was facing a serious criminal case in Allahabad High [...]