Patriotism used to be serious business. Whether it was giving one’s life for the cause of the country and its people or working on the ground, educating the masses, protecting the environment and ig...

So the long drawn-out mess of these elections is finally over. Those who claimed that Modi-Shah’s BJP-RSS would return with an increased majority were right. Those who projected — or hoped — tha...

The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday put out a new set of data that tried to show that economic growth during the NDA regime was far higher than that during the 10-year UPA tenure.The announcemen...

From jumla to Achchhe Din (and some not-so-Achchhe Din), we've imagined Narendra Modi's mann ki baat on New Year's Eve — the lessons he might have learnt and the resolutions he might want to ta...

Many definitions have been conferred on achchhe din. Few have been as stark and as chiselled as the one uttered by Nisar Ahmed who makes his living by shaping wood.“Itni nafrat ho gayee hai Musalman...

He looks like Narendra Modi, dresses and speaks like him and begins his election speeches with “Mitron (friends)” before going on to mention “achchhe din (good days)”, just like the summer of ...

In an election marked by a mystifying silence, punctuated only by the high-on-optics speeches of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that get live and exhaustive coverage, anti-BJP voters in Barabanki and Fa...

India is being overtaken by the spirit of grotesque comedy. The most recent manifestation of this occurred in Sahebganj in Jharkhand, when respective supporters of two Bharatiya Janata Party members o...

Promises of jobs and welfare took a back seat to “nationalist” sentiments as Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the 45-page BJP election manifesto, “Sankalp Patra”, on Monday.On top were �...

We are looking. We must look. Because we have been told there is something here to look for. And what better time there is to look but now? Not for Mahadeb, don’t get me wrong. Mahadeb has been gone...