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Confront these painful truths about communalism

Why does an underworld don who offered the Indian cricket team Toyota cars if they…

Rahul’s attack on ordinance raises more questions than it answers

Dear Rahulji, Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: as someone who has long…

Too soon to say goodbye

The three most influential politicians of the 1990s were Narasimha Rao, Vishwanath Pratap Singh and…

The enigma of silence

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win!:…

Connecting with youth: Modi has edge over Rahul

In the age of marketing, there is perhaps no social category as attractive as the…

Get past the potholes

Tweeting can be risky business in the age of the Senas as celebrity author Shobhaa…

Not secularism, stupid

How does one define a tweet as secular or communal? Last week, I sent a…

Devolution for evolution

There is a story, possibly apocryphal, on Babasaheb Bhosale being made Maharashtra chief minister in…

Lalu model re-caste

For the political journalist who thrives on caste arithmetic, Bihar is perhaps the last refuge.…

With him or against him

If elections were to held in the social media, Narendra Modi would almost certainly be…