In the summer thriller of 2014, history sets the stage for India to choose between the fatal and the fabulous.

There is more to this election than Modi and Rahul

Tibetans in India are caught between the right to vote and their commitment to the cause. Is it hypocritical?

Is it the end of Hindu victimhood?

Mihir Srivastava ventures into the clandestine satta bazaar, a political betting market where the stakes are as high as $2.5 billion. And guess who’s a safe bet?

Everyone wants to adopt Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

Is it payback time in the Hindi heartland?

Why campaigners prefer helicopters

Good doesn’t necessarily follow from blackening someone’s face, even if it appears to be deserved

They talk development on college campuses

Why the prospects of the Congress’ fifth-generation dynastic gamble hang by a slender thread

No autocrat as sanguineous as Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is at work today, and it’s nostalgia that drives his extraterritorial ambition.