This never-told-before inside story of the CBI’s complicity with Lalu Yadav’s political enemies when he was nailed in the fodder scam, now with Lalu making headlines all over India following...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By Inderjit Badhwar
Even though Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, a courtly, conscientious and erudite spokesman for his beliefs and his party, may have used the phrase “...
The decision to bar entry of women into the mazaar of Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai has reached the Bombay High Court. With successive state governments not taking any decisive action, it is now left to t...
By Inderjit Badhwar
The more we read about the politics of beef and meat, the more confused we get. The greater the confusion, the greater the mutual religious and commu...
By Inderjit Badhwar
One of the saddest hours befell Indian democracy in May 1990. During a stormy and unruly session of the Rajya Sabha when Congress (I), the defeated now-in-opposition par...
By Inderjit Badhwar
In the way to work every morning, I drive along the India Gate parikrama. To my right, just before approaching the stately Hyderabad House rises the monument—a war memor...
By Inderjit Badhwar
Perhaps one of the most powerful news developments of the year—lost in the din of Indo-Pak relations and cloak-and-dagger spy stories—is how India’s courts have struck a...
By Inderjit Badhwar
This editorial is not about the pros and cons of the death penalty. There are legal luminaries, some of the best in India who have, during this century and the previous one,...
By Inderjit Badhwar
No self-respecting journalist should want to become a part of the me-too-brigade: the herd instinct that propels so many of us to jump on to the pack-journalism bandwagon of...
Bharatiya Janata Party veteran Lal Krishna Advani, who has seen the ins and outs of power and governance, rule and misrule, corruption and probity, vendetta politics and administrative justice, is...