Karan Thapar

It's not flowing prose that sweeps you along. Instead, the author has opted for short, staccato sentences. They're like terse commands: Insistent, demanding but strangely riveting

Judiciary's "independence" and "fearlessness" have been converted into partisanship and sycophancy

Though the author of Hindutva, savarkar was "hardly a practicing Hindu in the religious sense"

Nothing illustrates the growing inclination to "follow the leader" with an uncritical, unquestioning gaze like PM Modi's TV interviews

On Kashmir and Pakistan, it seems to be. The question is, how strongly it is blowing and for how long

Assembly's expression of views is not power because those views cannot change anything. Parliament can ignore its opinion, says NALSAR University vice chancellor

Chidambaram, Thapar says, often demanded the right to clear interviews before it was broadcast

The government might have transgressed the letter and spirit of the Constitution with its decision regarding Article 370 and the division of J&K along with its demotion to Union Territory status

'Politics is a game of compulsions, limitation and contradictions'

The Election Commission seems to lack the capacity to act against the PM. But I pray it proves I'm horribly wrong. If it does, I will readily apologise

The Balakot strike showed a determined India would respond decisively to terror. For this message to be delivered, the doubts must be removed

Why the government's decision to amend the Constitution to permit 10 per cent reservation for economically backward upper castes smacks of desperation

If state and national elections are held together, important state leaders would be unable to challenge national leaders and their parties

Why was the number of planes reduced from 126 to 36? If the government has now issued another tender for over 100 planes, how is the reduction justified?

Often critical of Nehru and Congress as an Opposition leader, Vajpayee as PM was Nehruvian in his breadth of vision, concern for parliamentary etiquette and considerate treatment of the Gandhi family

That some maintain Subhas Chandra Bose spent years incarcerated in a Soviet Gulag camp or hiding in Manchuria is unbelievable. Yet some do

It's not just what he says or who he attacks that Mr Modi reminds me of Mr Trump. Their personalities overshadow the high offices they hold

The case reveals more about us than it does about him

Interview with Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Interview with Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India