Rahul Gandhi after becoming the Congress president had to face electoral defeats in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. In Gujarat, the Congress party failed to wrest the state away from the BJP, but its...

Odisha is one of those few states where BJP has never tasted power on its own. It is also a state where the regional party in the form of BJD has ruled for...

26/11 has never left our memory. The burning of Taj captured on television was simply too much to take. We always wished that episode will never return to haunt our memories. But somewhere,...

I remember that lavish praise for a wily yet ruthless politician from Bihar. He was credited with turning the Indian railways into a profit making machine. However, Lalu Yadav had a dreaded style...

There is an uncanny resemblance between NDA alliance partners like Shiv Sena and disgruntled BJP leaders such as Arun Shourie. Both are raising enough barbs in the public domain against Shah Modi combine....

When the term 'BIMARU' was coined, few states were clubbed into the same. These states demonstrated sheer backwardness as compared to the other states in the country and comprised of MP, Rajasthan, Bihar...

There are two kinds of dictators or authoritarians. One kind makes the constitution obsolete and assumes full control or power. Then they unleash fascism and cruelty. Then there is another kind. These leaders...

There is a big similarity in the way Trump and Modi were elected. Both were outsiders to a cozy system and were hated by the mainstream media. Trump had to take on a...

Election after election and time after time it is very clear where the Indian National Congress is heading. From 200 plus seats in 2009, the party has dropped to a historic low in...

When we talk about egoism in politics, it has played a significant role in demolishing good opportunities. The same happened with Nitish Kumar who embraced opportunism over opportunity owing to ambitions that were...

Any politician basically needs three ingredients to cook him into a success. Personality, ideology and burning issues of the day are the three things that shape the perspective of any political leader. That...

Coalition in Indian politics has evolved with time. On the contrary, alliances ran Indian polity those days in the 1990s. Today after the emergence of BJP as the only pole in politics with...