Not vikas, but vishwas will win Gujarat for Modi

The Congress forgets Modi has demigod status in Gujarat and there is no way he can be defeated in the state, argues Syed Firdaus Ashraf. While covering the 2007 Gujarat assembly election, I......

Preserving India's democracy is not Hindus' job alone

'The fabric of democracy is fraying,' says T V R Shenoy.'It is being attacked not just by terrorists in Kashmir or by zealots in the North-East, but is being ripped apart even in Allahabad, in the......

Vinod Mehta: The man who had editorial chemistry

Mehta was known to be outspoken and had an unerring instinct for what would be read   What Vinod Mehta had, in two words, was ‘editorial chemistry’. Dina Vakil, a Mumbai......

Not such a Common Man

'His Common Man, with his unforgettable bewildered look, will live on for a long time to come, as will so many of his cartoons. They captured important moments in half a century of India's......

8 reasons why Indian cricket looks like Indian politics

Indeed, if you look at this hypothesis with sufficiently jaundiced eyes, you will find plenty in common in the way 'Team India' conducts its affairs and the way 'Team Modi' does, argues Krishna......