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Nothing is more dangerous than fudging the truth in order to set Indian citizens against each other
India's press is buying the UPA's promises of reform far too easily
We have a system of checks and balances but no checks, no balance, survive a culture where you can trust nobody and hold nobody to account
India's decided that public-private partnerships will fuel growth. Without similar investment in regulatory capacity, that's backfiring
The BJP is not now, nor has it ever been, a truly national right-of-centre alternative to the Congress. Mr Vajpayee was. His party was not
Almost as puzzling as the ill-timed rise of Mr Shinde were the cries of joy greeting P Chidambaram?s move to the finance ministry
Growth-killing monetary policy is being made on the basis of inconsistent, incomplete, out-of-date theory
Once known for shooting his mouth off, Shashi Tharoor now carefully weighs his every word. His latest book is another example of how he¿s learning to be a politician
The continuing optimist
Government is not supposed to be poor, it is supposed to work for those of us who are
The new FM must remember the difference between India today and in Mrs Gandhi's time
Edward Luce rehearses the familiar story of the USA¿s declining global economic power, but offers little that is new in terms of analysis
In a movie supposedly realistic, Dibakar Banerjee cannot handle politics except as a joke, with a party named "India Bane Pardes"
Clearly, Mr Gandhi has shown himself unable to pick the right people, and unable to pick the right issues
The constant plumber