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Congress president Rahul Gandhi maintained that there was massive corruption in contract and wondered why CAG report cited by SC on it had not been shared with PAC of Parliament. (Photo: ANI)

Chanakya's View: BJP gets wake-up call, Cong needs an agenda

The political climate is likely to remain surcharged, because the countdown to the next parliamentary elections has...

16 Dec 2018 7:18 AM IST

The art of civilised dialogue is dead

When our political leaders are culpable in taking discourse to its lowest common denominator, TV channels do the same.

2 Dec 2018 12:06 AM IST

Chanakya's View: Dialogue could resolve Ram temple issue

For Hindus, the site where Lord Ram was born irrespective of whether this can be historically proved or not has very...

18 Nov 2018 7:25 AM IST

Sardar Patels Statue of Unity in Gujarats Narmada district is twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty in the US. Iron was collected from all over the country to build the statue. (Photo: @PMOIndia twitter via PTI)

Chanakya's View: A befitting tribute to Patel was long overdue

Instead of that, we now have our PMs living in an improvised residence which clumsily combines thre bungalows.

4 Nov 2018 1:55 AM IST

Ashish Pandey had earlier claimed that he did not brandish his gun in the premises of Hyatt Hotel and carried it only for safety purposes. (Photo: ANI)

Lawmakers and their law-breaking progeny

The powerful need to have their egos massaged, and the supplicants must outdo each other in the most abject display of...

21 Oct 2018 1:29 AM IST

Rafale aircraft

Rafale deal not yet BJP's Bofors

The perception that there has been a huge defense scandal has hardly percolated down to the common people.

7 Oct 2018 12:46 AM IST

Chanakya's View: We need a more robust Pak foreign policy

Diplomacy to be effective must be embedded in a strategic matrix.

23 Sept 2018 7:22 AM IST

Telangana CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao with Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Chanakya's View: India needs dignity in its political repartee

There was a time in our country when even the most bitter political hostility was conveyed with civility.

9 Sept 2018 7:33 AM IST

In Budget 2017-18, finance minister Arun Jaitley has undertaken a comprehensive exercise to accelerate the Indian economys growth path.

Chanakya's View: Indian economy vs the Maya Jaal

The state of our economy is something like Maya.

26 Aug 2018 7:21 AM IST

Former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee

Atal Behari Vajpayee (1924-2018): A man of few words who left millions...

The poet in Atalji often made him reclusive, and prone to staccato sentences which he left to the intelligence of the...

18 Aug 2018 7:11 AM IST

NDA Candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh has been elected as Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman with 125 votes. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Chanakya's View: It's time to ruminate on coalition dharma'

Apart from the efforts of the BJP, much of the credit must go to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, for his political acumen and...

12 Aug 2018 7:43 AM IST

Nowadays, it is so much easier to browse through the net and download books on smartphones or Kindles.

Lutyens' elite and English apartheid

English has, for historical reasons, become a language spoken by a great many people in the world.

29 July 2018 1:37 AM IST