Fish, said Mao Zedong, do not swim in pure water. Dr Manmohan Singh is no Maoist but he should, by now, know a thing or two about swimming upstream. He could, of course, point out that pollution is not very good for the health of fish either...

A new Parliament is a new beginning. It represents another opportunity to correct mistakes and set invaluable precedents for the future. That's why the decisive election outcome was greeted with a wave of euphoria...

The first thing that needs to be said about the Cabinet-making exercise is that it took far too long. The results came in on a Saturday and by the following Saturday there still was no government in place...

Of the several attributes assigned to the Congress party's victory in the recent elections, analysts have come up with many theories based on caste/class/religion factors which influence politics in India, all of which have ...