Narendra Modi’s action-oriented approach is in glaring contrast with the previous regimes that used human rights as a tool to belie motivated interests.

How Vajpayee’s kashmiriyat, jamhooriyat, insaniyat became Amit Shah’s people, peace and progress

A Prime Minister to Remember written by former Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar reveals the aftermath of the brazen terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament and the ill-timed Operation Parakram.

A Balakot that wasn’t: Vajpayee planned strike post Parliament attack in 2001

The grand old party seems adamant to cling to the Nehru-Gandhis and not reinvent. But PM Modi's continuing obsession with the Congress also indicates that perhaps all isn't lost for it.

Is Congress in a coma? The only person who really seems to care is PM Modi

Singh is reaching out to every section of society, including Muslims, despite knowing he stands a very easy chance at winning.

In Vajpayee's Footsteps: Why Rajnath Singh is striking a chord in Lucknow, just like a former BJP leader

Personalities

There are many who say that Advani’s was a

The Karmic Cycle: Did LK Advani's karma boomerang and lead to his sidelining in the BJP?

There are many who say that Advani’s was a "gentler kind of communalism" and he is appalled by what the BJP has now become. That is absolute nonsense.

Political narratives are all about convenience. You are 'secular' when you talk of caste groups or the Muslim-Yadav combination. But you are 'communal' when you speak of the Hindu vote bank. What drives such selective standards?

Convenient Secularists: How those who called Vajpayee 'communal' first later hailed him as a 'statesman'

Controversies

It's said that PM Vajpayee acted under pressure, releasing Maulana Masood Azhar in exchange for Indian hostages. But what would an Indian PM do today? Do we have a coherent policy yet in place?

Hijacked Logic: As politics over 1999's IC 814 rages now, are we really different today?

It's said that PM Vajpayee acted under pressure, releasing Maulana Masood Azhar in exchange for Indian hostages. But what would an Indian PM do today?

Sources close to Chouhan say he fancies himself in Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Don’t write off Shivraj Singh Chouhan just yet. Here’s how he is scripting his comeback

Sources close to Chouhan say he fancies himself in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's mould.

Privately, Vajpayee kept referring to the VHP-Bajrang Dal lot as the vanar sena!

December 6: The Ram Temple dramatis personae and the Vajpayee ambiguity 

While other BJP leaders were militant about the Ayodhya movement, Atal Bihari Vajpayee both scorned, and used, it.

Polls now are seeing terrible language used for political rivals, and even their families, by all sides. There was, however, a gentler time in politics where politicians behaved like gentlemen

As the political rhetoric on all sides worsens, one can only ask, 'Ye andaz-e-guftagu kya hai?'

Polls now are seeing terrible language used for political rivals, and even their families, by all sides. There was, however, a gentler time in politics when politicians behaved like gentlemen