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The writer is a Delhi-based journalist.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Of bad advisers & poor planning

The programme began last November 19, when former President Pranab Mukherjee delivered a centenary lecture.

5 Nov 2017 12:01 AM IST

President Pranab Mukherjee (Photo: PTI)

Of Pranab's diplomacy and Gadkari's weight loss

Mr Gadkari refused to be drawn into a conversation on political issues.

22 Oct 2017 12:42 AM IST

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman after taking charge at her office in New Delhi, becoming the first full-time woman Defence Minister of the country. (Photo: PTI)

Of defensive Sitharaman & sidelined neta

Sitharaman has grown in stature after she was elevated to Cabinet rank and moved from the commerce ministry to the...

8 Oct 2017 12:41 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed 1.25 crore Indians for fourth time. (Photo: PTI)

Of new mantris & old babus

Yogi Adityanath obviously could not chair a parliamentary committee after his appointment as chief minister.

10 Sept 2017 12:18 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)

Of Cabinet reshuffles & popularity contests

According to the Delhi grapevine, a Cabinet reshuffle should take place before Mr Modi leaves for the Brics summit on...

27 Aug 2017 12:23 AM IST

Congress leader Ahmed Patel arrives at the parliament house in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Netas sweat it out for seats & ministries

The BJP is only too happy with this development as a division in the votes will work to its advantage.

13 Aug 2017 12:33 AM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar speaks to the media after meeting Governor KN Tripathi, in Patna. (Photo: PTI)

JD(U) chief's ghar wapsi, courtesy Modi-Shah

JD(U) president Nitish Kumar's ghar wapsi to the BJP was painstakingly planned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party...

30 July 2017 12:20 AM IST

L.K. Advani (Photo: PTI)

Bharat Ratna for Advani?

It seems that the ghost of the 1962 India-China war continues to haunt the defence and external affairs ministries.

16 July 2017 12:19 AM IST

President Pranab Mukherjee (Photo: PTI)

Mukherjee: The troubleshooter President

BJP president Amit Shah has also set up a crack team to ensure that the NDA candidate wins with a huge margin.

2 July 2017 7:27 AM IST

Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia. (Photo: AFP)

Missing scion, warring partymen

PM Narendra Modi never hosts an iftar and makes it a point to skip the one hosted by the President.

18 Jun 2017 3:11 AM IST

Social activist Aanna Hazare. (Photo: PTI/File)

Anna Hazare as our next President?

Little was known about Mr Hazare till six years ago as his campaigns had till then been confined to Maharashtra.

4 Jun 2017 12:10 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) and BJP President Amit Shah. (Photo: File)

BJP hit by the Congress disease'

BJP workers in West Bengal have not stopped complaining ever since national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya was...

21 May 2017 12:09 AM IST