I haven’t read Rajdeep Sardesai’s book on the 2019 elections, and I don’t intend to. I did come across an extract though that was published on a web portal. In it, he described...

A video doing the rounds on social media yesterday created quite a stir. A Muslim community leader is seen addressing his adversaries, telling them that for every person in their community who wants...

Let us ask ourselves an honest question. Turn the tables hypothetically. Imagine there was a Congress government at the helm. Imagine that the media, the intelligentsia and institutions such as JNU were dominated...

Earlier this week, a section of BJP supporters were outraged when the party cracked down on Bhopal MP Sadhvi Pragya Thakur. Sadhvi had allegedly defended Nathuram Godse, the killer of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,...

With the luxury of hindsight, one can speculate more accurately about the backroom machinations and calculations that took place after the Maharashtra assembly election results were announced. The moment Shiv Sena made it...

Arun Jaitley, former finance minister and BJP stalwart, passed away today. He was just 66. He was unwell for a large part of the last 2 years. Among the politicians who often faced...

PM Modi is back for a second term in style. The BJP is all set to win around 300 seats, and the Congress Party’s final tally is likely to be around 50. We’re...

The first Lok Sabha election that I followed closely was the 2004 election. Following it closely meant that I was tuned in to NDTV throughout the day. At the time, we were given...

38 of Tamil Nadu’s 39 Lok Sabha seats and 18 Assembly constituencies go to the polls today. This is the first major election in Tamil Nadu after the passing of J Jayalalithaa and...

The garage of a jewellery showroom in one of the busiest crossings of the town- that is where we were supposed to assemble. After parking our vehicle two blocks away, we walked quickly...

Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to travel to space. It happened 12 years before I was born. The story was told and retold to me several times. Each time, people fondly remembered...

Today, the final slap on the faces of those questioning the Balakot airstrike has been delivered. Pictures proving that a precision strike took place are now in public domain, a crucial piece of...