BJP Celebrates Modi's Third Term

Celebrations had already begun at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in New Delhi before the full announcement of results. The counting of votes is still underway and at 2222 hours on June 4,......

Can our parties answer these 4 QUESTIONS?

Should parties provide clearer answers to queries about their financials? Sreenivasan Jain examines Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is said to have famously remarked that every......

Memo to Rahul: It is 2014, not 2004

The Congress vice-president needs to speak from a script more attuned to today's realities because his attempts to position himself as the perennial outsider would have held greater resonance 10......

The Nitin Gadkari interview

Will BJP President Nitin Gadkari be able to answer the questions that Arvind Kejriwal has raised about his company, Purti Sugar & Power Ltd? Read on, to find out what Gadkari has to say about......

The noise around the land acquisition law

The debate over the land ordinance is best located in facts, not hyperbole, says Sreenivasan Jain. Labourers work along the construction site of a road at Ghilot in Rajasthan. Photograph: Adnan......

All about the Food Security Bill myth

There's nothing to back claims that the bill will fix broken PDS networks, notes Sreenivasan Jain Given the economic tremors ascribed to the food security Bill, one wonders whether the prophets of......

The economic cost of conflict in Kashmir

If and when this latest crisis moves towards resolution, it’s unlikely that the economic solutions will take much precedence, says Sreenivasan Jain. Image: A Kashmiri woman carrying......

'I will never have the joy of sitting with Girish again'

Economist and author Devaki Jain counted Girish Karnad among her good friends.Naturally, the 86-year-old Padma Shri awardee is coping with a deep sense of loss after Karnad passed into the ages on......