Alchemists believed that lead could be perfected into gold, that diseases could be cured, and that life could be prolonged through transmutation. The politician is also a kind of alchemist. Even thou...

The development comes in the backdrop of the Centre pursuing the extradition of several prominent fugitives, such as Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, facing charges of financial embezzlement...

I was the accidental finance minister in the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee which took office in March 1998. Jaswant Singh was the finance minister in the earlier 13-day Vajpayee government in 19...

BJP veteran L.K. Advani, himself displaced by the Partition, on Saturday recalled the “trauma” but also underlined the “triumph of freedom” that accompanied it, stressing &ldqu...

Western Uttar Pradesh is witnessing a novel unity between Muslims and Hindu Jat peasants in the course of the agitation against the three farm laws. This is important for an obvious reason. The Muzaff...

The 20th anniversary of the Agra summit, when General Pervez Musharraf was invited to India, will fall this coming July. As is well known, it was Musharraf’s outspoken comments early during the ...

In a nation where judges believe in the existence of tearful peacocks, a land that has had a fair share of the proverbial crocodiles in public life armed with leaking tear ducts, why should the prime ...

Book title: Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi Author: Vinay Sitapati Publisher, price: Viking, Rs 799 I had spent a year on the BJP beat when Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani would forge that extra...

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