I was staying at New Delhi’s India International Centre ten days ago when I discovered, by pure chance, that a philatelic exhibition on Dr B.R. Ambedkar was on at its Art Gallery. It was a blist...

The Narendra Modi administration’s 10 days of inaction after the denigration of the Prophet by the then BJP spokespersons and its failure to anticipate the blowback from West Asia is surprising ...

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was one of independent India’s most accomplished communicators. In real life, he was taciturn, often at a loss for words in a small gathering, but he was a man transformed, ...

“Lal Krishna Advani would be assassinated during his forthcoming visit to West Bengal. That was what the paper in my hands said,” Mitra writes. Shortly after Advani left Calcutta there wa...

It has been a long time coming but on Thursday, the Tata Group finally regained control of Air India, seven decades after the government had nationalized the carrier. The handover marks the Narendra M...

Like alchemy, which was an obsessive concern for the medieval world, modern democracies are forever preoccupied with unearthing the secrets of winning elections. In the not-so-distant past, striking t...

Two decisions by the Union government have far-reaching policy consequences: the privatization of Air India and the corporatization of the Ordnance Factory Board. The sale of Air India is the first su...

The event was held as a tribute to Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 97th birth anniversary ...

Missing in action The manner in which two high-flying leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party have disappeared from the limelight after being dropped from the Union ministry has amazed Lutyens’ c...

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday hailed former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, saying that he was the only leader after Jawaharlal Nehru who was appreciated by people across the country, ...