Narendra Modi

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The UP Muslim ‘vote bank’ predicament

The complicated and controversial notion of a Muslim vote bank stretches back to the first…

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It’s now ‘Modi vs All’

The BJP and the Shiv Sena were once seen as ‘natural allies’ but life for…

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Will politics shrink in 2017?

We live, to put it mildly, in “interesting times”. This is an age where TV…

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Has Modi done an Indira?

Last month in an interview I asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi if she would concede…

Demonetisation: Modi risks winning battle, losing war

For those still surprised by prime minister Narendra Modi’s audacious demonetisation gamble, the past maybe…

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Tele-democracy, Trump and Modi

The latest opinion polls in the US are suggesting a much tighter race for the…

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Stop the ‘marketing’ of surgical strikes

In the 1980s when Rajiv Gandhi had chosen to attack his opponents by warning that…

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Modi’s firm message but can war-mongers be kept at bay?

In the universe of the 24×7 media, there is literally no place to hide. Which…

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Don’t write off Smriti Irani

Life on Twitter can be nasty, brutish and short. Which is perhaps why within moments…

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PM Modi and the TINA factor

“We will change the face of India in ten years,” thundered Narendra Modi in a…