Agent Provocateur

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Friday has come and gone. Shahrukh Khan’s film, My Name is Khan, has been released in theatres across the country and around the world. The ...

On a late spring evening more than a decade ago, some of us had gathered at Pramod Mahajan’s apartment — he hadn’t moved into a Lutyens’ bun...

[Update: The so-called 'resolution' of the crisis in Karnataka is at best a temporary truce between the Reddy Brothers and Yeddyurap...

Who's to blame for Karnataka problem? The BJP Government in Karnataka, by all accounts, finds itself in choppy, if not turbulent, water...

The BJP just continues to get sucked deeper into the mire of deceitful and duplicitous faction politics. In the process, it continues to get...

It’s been a great Monday for the BJP and the larger ideological Parivar. In Gujarat, the BJP has won five of the seven Assembly seats where ...

[ For an expanded version, with insider details of Advani-Vajpayee and Advani-Jaswant relations, see my column Coffee Break in Sunday Pione...

“ A house divided against itself cannot stand. ” [Abraham Lincoln] A s the BJP’s central office-bearers and members of the so-called ‘core g...

[Update posted at the end.] T he blame-game has begun in the BJP. Those who are directly responsible for the party’s disastrous electoral pe...

Comment The varied response to my last entry, Locating BJP’s Ideology , is also indicative of the lack of unanimity and the confusion that p...

Comment There was a time when the BJP prided itself as an 'ideological political party' with clarity of thought and purpose. Many of...

Kanchan Gupta / Comment H ere's the news of the day from the BJP front, as circulated by PTI: Advani to continue as Leader of Opposition...