Beyond the Rajaji Utsav, a look at how C. Rajagopalachari’s legacy exposed the early roots of corruption and political sidelining by the Nehruvian establishment
To hear Rahul Gandhi hurl allegations at the armed forces or brand his colleagues as traitors is to witness a very old game being played with very new, and very dangerous, stakes
In the 1962 general elections for North Mumbai, Nehru inaugurated an ugly precedent of debasing public discourse only in order to get his Man Friday, V.K. Krishna Menon elected
A rebuttal to and commentary on columnist Tavleen Singh's recent article in the Indian Express in which she praises Narendra Modi for ushering in decolonisation.
Congress MP D.K. Suresh's call for a separate South Indian nation heralds the Dravidification of Karnataka politics and must be checked if we are serious about national unity
In 1992, Arjun Singh, the Human Resources Minister, ordered the Archeological Survey of India to halt the excavations at the site of the disputed structure in Ayodhya in order to appease the Muslim vote bank. This is a story that has received little attention.
In January 1959, DVG wrote two acerbic letters to the then Mysore Chief Minister B.D. Jatti and sent its copies to the Home Minister, G.B. Pant. It triggered a chain of bureaucratic correspondence between Delhi and Bangalore. The episode offers brilliant and eye-opening insights into recent history.