Then there are times when the will to abandon course overwhelms the thin stream of reason

What clearly emerges from his resounding caution is that no centre can ever hope to subjugate large swathes of India

More truth may come from them than is now on offer from the living icons of “new India”.

Abide with me, Bapu, For when hate is ascendant, I need you

Every word Khan chose for his reporting bespoke the fineness and subtlety of his learning, and his deep concern for the preservation of India’s diverse values

Modi’s remark on farmers who died during protests clearly seems to indicate that he conflates his persona with the majesty of the state, in a throwback to Louis XIV

If the desired curtailment of constitutional democracy were to result from the democratic process itself, a populist endorsement would have been achieved for the transformation, and the nomenclature of fascist overthrow neatly averted

Narendra Modi has allocated to himself the world-historical burden of exporting India’s great democratic civilisational values to the floundering globe at large. But rogue functionaries of high status seem hell bent on getting in the way

Dying is not the worst scare, Lack of converse is

Where the Congress leader may have erred is in characterising all those present in the Jaipur audience as Hindus