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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

Rahul Gandhi is inheriting the Congress, but it is a party his mother Sonia inherited from her husband Rajiv, who inherited it from his brother Sanjay, who inherited it from their mother Indira, who had inherited it from her father Jawaharlal Nehru.

The Dynasty

This is not an unusual phenomenon anywhere in the world, so why should it be different in India? And limited to some...

17 Dec 2017 6:33 AM IST

Congress president Sonia Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Sonia: A woman who transformed Cong

If the Congress had a chance to become a non-dynastic party, this was the time when its senior leadership could have...

17 Dec 2017 12:12 AM IST

Mani Shankar Aiyar

A campaign of slurs and fears

The word Modi itself means an individual who runs the neighbourhood store, and it has the same meaning as the name...

10 Dec 2017 12:17 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

Will it be enough to defeat BJP in Gujarat?

Gujarat is a high turnout state and the BJP, even if it leads opinion polls, must ensure that its base comes out and...

3 Dec 2017 12:11 AM IST

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The case of disappearing human rights

The activists were charged after a workshop on digital security that was held in a hotel.

26 Nov 2017 4:37 AM IST

Harvey Weinstein.

Now is the time to go public against predators

Government data says that 99 per cent victims of sexual violence in India do not report the crime to the police.

19 Nov 2017 5:30 AM IST

GST, which will replace more than a dozen central and state levies like factory-gate, excise duty, service tax and local sales tax or VAT, is Indias biggest tax reform in the 70 years of independence. (Phtoto: Representational/PTI)

Are the GST tax slabs logical?

The Goods and Services Tax has seven slabs: 0 per cent, 0.25 per cent, 3 per cent, 5 per cent, 12 per cent, 18 per cent...

12 Nov 2017 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Does PM Modi have an ideology?

The question is not whether the UPA was better at governance than the NDA, Chidambaram is accepting his government's...

5 Nov 2017 12:02 AM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday directed the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to issue visa to a Pakistani child for medical treatment in India. (Photo: File | PTI)

Sushma's e-durbar: Today's Adl-e-Jahangir

We have no real coherent foreign policy on Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh or Myanmar.

29 Oct 2017 12:38 AM IST

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India's bogus cricket patriotism

The BCCI as a private body has every right to decide who should play or not play for it.

22 Oct 2017 12:54 AM IST

One-day cracker ban isnt the solution

One-day cracker ban isn't the solution

The factory put polyester yarn through a process called texturising, which made the plasticky yarn more wearable.

15 Oct 2017 12:38 AM IST

People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo: AFP)

When Muslims do it, it's called terrorism

India's law against terror is called Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) and was legislated by the Vajpayee government in...

8 Oct 2017 12:46 AM IST