Vir Sanghvi

A dangerous turn in Punjab

India's politicians will have to place national interest ahead of electoral benefit to combat the emergence of the new Khalistan movement

The President vs the Prime Minister

India's Presidents were never intended to be rubber stamps, but could they manoeuvre things to strike fear into the heart of a Prime Minister?

The return of an old mindset

If Mrs Gandhi were here today, there is much about current Indian attitudes that she would find familiar

An illusion that divides

Every debate is recast in left vs right terms in the urban mindscape, but it is hard to tell one from the other

The airlines we deserve

Two stories this week showed what's wrong with the attitudes of airlines and passengers

The freewheelin' Bob Dylan

His book about pop songs is a strange, slightly self-indulgent romp through songs that have been selected with no particular theme in mind

They do blend

The mixture of sport and politics has always worked to the advantage of humanity

Arvind Kejriwal's radical transformation

Kejriwal may have shrewdly given up his secular positions, but he is no Hindutva hero. He has simply been able to sense which way the wind is blowing

The spectacle of the king and the cheetahs

It sounds silly and trivial to compare the death of a beloved monarch to a stunt involving spotted animals. But there are parallels

Rohini Nilekani is changing philanthropy

Her book offers a useful maxim for philanthropists to live by

Global Indians make us proud

They, including Rishi Sunak and Freddie Mercury, have made themselves indispensable in nearly every field

The new ideology of politics

India is fighting an old battle again, with two ideas of the country colliding with each other

JLF's Maldives outing: From Jaipur to London, the lit fest is going places

At most foreign editions, JLF makes some attempt to encourage discussions on issues directly concerning the host city

Nehru for the post-truth era

His legacy has been all but drowned out by social media lies and mainstream media forgeries that have replaced his ideas of a pluralistic, diverse and free India

2024 elections a done deal?

This is what PM Modi believes but Prashant Kishor and Opposition leaders are of the opinion that the BJP can still lose

Reckoning with a divided India

No matter who wins the Assembly elections, the idea of India has already lost

Fading memories of a terror attack

The parallels between 9/11 and 26/11 are many, but the differences in the ways in which the two countries have coped in the aftermath are also striking

Mixed messages and a muddle

In supporting Mr Sidhu in Punjab, the Congress has created more confusion over what it stands for

BJP: As safe as a big bank

After West Bengal, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have recognised the next run on their bank might come in Uttar Pradesh

It's not over till it's over

Despite the disastrous handling of the pandemic, Narendra Modi could still bounce back