Leader or the ideology: What should Congress party members abandon?

The Gandhi family is to the Congress what the RSS was to the BJP. But the latter has now reduced its dependence on the RSS to almost zero

In 1967, in my first year at Hindu College in Delhi University, a senior who used to do those "youth" programmes for All India Radio took me along to be interviewed by the external services division. I said India was a rotten country, or words to that effect.

The lady who was interviewing me stopped the recording. Then, in a very kind voice, she said something I have never forgotten. "Son, there's a time and place for everything, even speaking the truth". What I gained in wisdom that day, I lost in money. I wasn't paid the Rs 15 as