IRONY was writ large when the government took the unprecedented midnight step of sending the CBI director and his Number 2 on leave...
ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaNovember 7, 2018THE book, jointly authored by India’s former Indian Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) chief Amarjit Singh Dulat and the Pakistan’s former Inter Services...
ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaJune 20, 2018NOTWITHSTANDING that Chaudhary Devi Lal’s ambition to be the Prime Minister was thwarted—he ending up as Deputy PM under VP Singh and Chandrashekhar—Haryana...
ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaDecember 10, 2017Why did the 125-year-old Congress party get decimated to 44 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 parliamentary elections? It did not happen in...
ByRenu Mittal and Shubhabrata BhattacharyaApril 11, 2017PANDIT Dwarka Prasad Mishra, a two-term Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, who emerged as an effective power centre in New Delhi in the...
ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaApril 11, 2017GOVERNANCE in India continues to suffer the populism unleashed in 1980s by Vishwanath Pratap Singh in his bid to seize power. A junior...
ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaMarch 9, 2017He set off for Delhi from his home in Hissar with Rs. 17 in his pocket at the age of 17. The flourishing...
ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaMarch 6, 2016BIHAR has once again changed the paradigm: in 1917, Champaran set the tone for the freedom struggle; in 1974, the JP movement heralded...
ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaDecember 5, 2015HISTORY seems to be repeating itself in the corridors of power in New Delhi. Three decades back, as Rajiv Gandhi was trying to...
ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaMarch 6, 2015CONTRARY to popular belief, the now deceased Planning Commission was not a legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru. The blueprint for this institution was outlined...
ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaFebruary 8, 2015