In a Sweet Spot - June 27, 2023

Democratic Unclogging - May 18, 2023

A Different Ram Navami - April 07, 2023

In 2024, an all-powerful BJP may face a radically diminished Opposition - April 01, 2023

The idea of India: Rahul plus Gandhi - March 17, 2023

Kerala, the caring state - February 28, 2023

What government-Adani relationship says about Indian capitalism - February 13, 2023

Where China is headed and what it means for India - December 29, 2022

US midterms: A defeat for Trumpism - November 14, 2022

A dark path goes from Kheda to New India - October 18, 2022

India@75: The Waning - August 19, 2022

Backsliding in America - June 27, 2022

Overturning of Roe vs Wade: America has taken another step towards democratic backsliding - June 26, 2022

Gyanvapi: Court must follow law not faith - May 23, 2022

Communal violence is not new to India. But something is different now - April 23, 2022

Electoral democracy vs constitutional democracy: Post-poll lessons - March 12, 2022

In pursuing his imperial ambition, Putin underestimated Ukrainian nationalism - March 05, 2022

‘Pakistan has not improved, but India has deteriorated’: writer Salman Rushdie - December 04, 2021

Jim Crow Hindutva - October 19, 2021

Understanding the foreign policy doctrine of the Biden era - September 06, 2021

What does it mean to be Indian? - July 26, 2021

Will the electorate hold the BJP government responsible for the suffering during the pandemic? - June 24, 2021

The link between great power and great suffering — from Mao’s China to Modi’s India - May 06, 2021

India’s democratic exceptionalism is now withering away. The impact is also external - February 23, 2021

When history is written, US courts may be singled out for protecting nation’s election integrity - January 09, 2021

Govt needs to ready solutions that will facilitate agrarian transition without hurting farmers - December 16, 2020

US Election 2020 shows a deeply divided nation - November 06, 2020

Unless Joe Biden wins big, America stares at a constitutional crisis - October 30, 2020

Institutional oddities of US polity mean Trump could win an election he lost - October 05, 2020

The black part of Kamala Harris’s identity is bound to be bigger, but the Indian part will not be suppressed - August 20, 2020

Hindu nationalism, White supremacism threaten to morally impoverish the two democracies - July 06, 2020

It is not simply the death of a black man, but yet another moment of truth for America - June 03, 2020

The new capitalism: In the foreseeable future, politics will drive economic policies, not market-based rationality - May 04, 2020

How we define and categorise the Delhi violence matters - March 02, 2020

If Modi government violently cracks down, anti-CAA protests will engulf more of India - January 28, 2020

Recent exclusionary steps can only bring India’s international image down - December 16, 2019

If Shiv Sena wishes to remain in power, it can’t return to full-blooded Hindutva - December 09, 2019

A temple on contested site of mosque’s destruction departs from judicial counter-majoritarianism - November 13, 2019

For Modi, Houston guaranteed a huge turnout of Indian Americans. Trump may need them to win Texas in 2020- October 05, 2019

By numbers alone - August 17, 2019

Democratic ambivalence - July 29, 2019

Transfiguring India - May 27, 2019

Travelling East UP - May 16, 2019

Caste and religion still form the bedrock of people’s political understanding in Uttar Pradesh - May 16, 2019

2019 and populism - April 06, 2019

National security will compete with unemployment, farm distress as a critical election issue - February 28, 2019

View from city’s margins - January 22, 2019

Taming hubris - December 14, 2018

Midterm elections: A bruised Trump - November 13, 2018

A new RSS? - October 05, 2018

‘A battle between Hindutva and Hinduism is coming’ - August 11, 2018

Grime Beneath the Glitter - July 21, 2018

Is China meritocratic? - July 11, 2018

Why did China agree to Wuhan? - May 02, 2018

Liberals and nationalism - March 29, 2018

Denying Nehru his due - February 14, 2018

What Gujarat means - December 26, 2017

Globalisation in retreat - November 30, 2017

Is Narendra Modi a populist? - October 23, 2017

More accountant, less visionary - August 16, 2017

The Nitish echo - August 03, 2017

Crime and context - July 07, 2017

The Yogi gamble - April 17, 2017

A PM like Indira Gandhi - March 16, 2017

When the state looks away - March 01, 2017

America vs America - February 15, 2017

Demonetisation 2.0 - February 01, 2017

Post-truth demonetisation - January 03, 2017

White with rage - November 12, 2016

Last tango in America - November 02, 2016

Inside, outside - September 27, 2016

Return of the cow - August 23, 2016

In China, a stirring and a new question - August 03, 2016

The Trump spectre - June 27, 2016

Mind the liberal gaps - May 25, 2016

The Bharat Mata pivot - March 30, 2016

Modi’s Idea of India-2 - February 05, 2016

Modi’s idea of India-1 - January 27, 2016

San Francisco to Dadri October 23, 2015

Can Modi turn the tide? - August 04, 2015

Untie the farmer - April 29, 2015

Faults and lines - March 28, 2015

What Delhi rejects - February 19, 2015

Putin’s next step - February 03, 2015

And now, India’s turn - January 28, 2015

The 2015 question - December 30, 2014

Democracy’s pioneer - November 19, 2014

Sparks, not fires - October 30, 2014

‘The Chinese would not make big concessions to win India’s friendship’ - September 27, 2014

United States of Britain? - September 23, 2014

The pragmatic PM? - August 22, 2014

Modi’s institutional designs - July 28, 2014

Modi’s ambivalence - June 28, 2014

2014, like 1952 - May 19, 2014

Modi, on balance - April 29, 2014

Hearing the silence - April 14, 2014

Politics as unusual - December 23, 2013

One problem is The Dynasty - December 12, 2013

A strange fire - September 20, 2013

Democracy vs Capitalism - September 11, 2013

Not only Telangana - August 27, 2013

The Need for Impatience - July 27, 2013

The costs of no food security - July 12, 2013

Doing the Modi math - June 27, 2013

Advani,moment,nation - June 18, 2013

Possibilities of redemption - May 21, 2013

The Boston question - April 23, 2013

Hyphens and national unity - March 20, 2013

Growth and graft - October 26, 2012

Rural welfare, not Walmart - September 24, 2012

Moving to the city - August 23, 2012

Modern like China - August 14, 2012

The ravages of routine - August 01, 2012

The business-politics nexus - July 09, 2012

The right turn for BJP - June 25, 2012

India’s moment of truth - June 11, 2012

Are the states too strong? - May 24, 2012

A new dawn or false? - March 12, 2012

The year of living angrily - December 31, 2011

The long shadow of the Ramlila stage - September 07, 2011

Has urban India arrived? - August 25, 2011

Rethink the communal violence bill - July 16, 2011

State of civil society - June 14, 2011

Doomed by example - August 03, 2010

State of the Union - December 05, 2009

What if Jinnah had won - September 15, 2009

Not quite Model Malaysia - June 21, 2006

Colours of Indianhood - August 30, 2004

Making the state behave, and well - April 23, 2002

Try some generosity - February 26, 1998

Narendra Modi's illiberal drift threatens Indian democracy - August 17, 2017

Modi’s victory is little short of an electoral revolution - May 16, 2014

India’s elections still uncertain? - April 14, 2014

India must harness the profit motive in the spirit of Nehru (with Jayant Sinha) - August 7, 2012

India's battle for democracy has just begun - August 30, 2011

It is time for India to rein in its robber barons (with Jayant Sinha) - January 6, 2011

Memo to Obama: Back India to join the UN’s club - November 4, 2010

India's national renewal benefits everyone - May 18, 2009

A chance to stitch together India’s diversities - May 17, 2009

India returns to the Grand Old Party - May 16, 2009

India’s diversity in diversity- April 24, 2009

Assault on India’s fabled city of dreams - November 28, 2008

Caste battle only half won as north lags south - August 15, 2007

Now for India to walk on two legs - July 06, 2009

Culture, not religion - May 29, 2009

Diversity in diversity - April 23, 2009

India Abroad Interview - January 31, 2014

Leaps of faith - August 13, 2009

ABC of poverty reduction - September 19, 2005

Towards a gentler India - June 7, 2004

Are the people always right? - February 22, 2014

Does it make sense to pulp books? - February 17, 2014

How damaging are Narendra Modi's historical lapses? - February 6, 2014

When Rahul Gandhi says he can't alter his ancestry - January 30, 2014

A Pair Of Bi-Focals; Markets must flourish, but the masses can't be left behind - April 09, 2007

Clay Is Not China: India's messy democracy gives it a protean edge over the rigidities of the neighbour - October 17, 2005

Will The Stallion Baulk In Mid-Gallop? What next, will the VHP repeat Gujarat in MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and even UP in 2003? - December 30, 2002

Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India, Pranab Bardhan

Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping their Futures and Yours,Tarun Khanna

'A battle between Hindutva and Hinduism is coming' - August 11, 2018

Grime Beneath the Glitter - July 21, 2018