May 22, 2014, Thursday

Rajiv Lall: 3 risks Modi government should manage

Modi's future success will depend on his ability to manage three risks: inflation, alienation of the Muslim community and ...

May 21, 2014, Wednesday

Praveen Chakravarty: Modi win shows path to Parliament is through 11 states

The difference in the seats won by BJP in Hindi and non-Hindi states is the highest in India's electoral history

May 20, 2014, Tuesday

Subir Roy: Debating proportional representation

The Left parties, a key victim of the current system, are the first to raise afresh the demand for a shift to proportional ...

May 19, 2014, Monday

Vivek Dehejia: The true 'cost' of elections

The money spent on vote-seeking should not be reckoned a cost, but merely a costless transfer from electoral candidates to the ...

May 18, 2014, Sunday

A K Bhattacharya: Small government, big gains

Narendra Modi should take advantage of his party's majority to shrink the size of the Cabinet

May 17, 2014, Saturday

Aditi Phadnis: What happened in Uttar Pradesh?

Dominant parties such as the BSP and Samajwadi Party were swept aside, while Mayawati's BSP was deserted

May 17, 2014, Saturday

T Thomas: An agenda for Mr Modi

India has been held back for half a century by the Congress' socialist model of economic development. Mr Modi can remove these ...

May 16, 2014, Friday

T N Ninan: A paradigm shift

For two-thirds of a century, the Congress has occupied pole position in Indian politics. That has now changed; the party has ...

May 16, 2014, Friday

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Election 2014 - What killed cock robin?

The severe inflation of the last five years affected everyone. That explains the sheer scale of the BJP win. The rest is addabazi

May 16, 2014, Friday

Devangshu Datta: A mandate for growth

India is in the middle of the biggest migration in human history. Tens of millions of young people have headed out of villages ...

May 16, 2014, Friday

Mihir S Sharma: The Modi generation

This is the youth bulge of North India; those too young to remember 1984, or even 1991 in some cases. India's history has finally ...

May 14, 2014, Wednesday

Nitin Desai: A flawed election

B R Ambedkar's fears about personality cults in politics and money power in elections seem to be coming true

May 13, 2014, Tuesday

A K Bhattacharya: After the victory, avoid pitfalls

The new government would do well to concentrate on framing its own agenda for action, instead of looking back to review decisions ...

May 13, 2014, Tuesday

Sreenivasan Jain: When NaMo takes the stage

Conversations at a rally in eastern Uttar Pradesh show how Narendra Modi is attempting to tilt this heartland in favour of the

May 12, 2014, Monday

Exit polls: Popcorn entertainer

Going by its track record, the super prime time show this evening will be a bad trailer of the actual show on Friday

May 11, 2014, Sunday

Mihir S Sharma: Farewell, a golden age

The unsurprising descent of India's most successful government

May 10, 2014, Saturday

Aditi Phadnis: For the BJP, it's make or break in Uttar Pradesh

The party is stuck in a grim situation - one generation of leaders is dying, but the second doesn't seem to be ready yet

May 10, 2014, Saturday

C S Krishna: The problem with pre-poll surveys

Indian pre-poll surveys have had a mixed track record in forecasting seat shares of parties in the general elections. While those ...

May 09, 2014, Friday

T N Ninan: To whose credit?

Memories can be short, so here is a reminder of how these elections have shaped up. In June last year the Bharatiya Janata Party ...

May 09, 2014, Friday

Honourable finance minister?

Arun Jaitley, who developed a strong bias in favour of reform and rectification when he was jailed during the Emergency, is one ...