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Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has once again left for Europe on a personal visit. (PTI file photo)

Anand K. Sahay | Will Rahul's Bharat Jodo' unite India's most needy?

The campaign to begin on September 7 may be seen as a nationwide jan jagran , or awakening of people to their own...

7 Sept 2022 12:08 AM IST

File photos of Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. (DC Image)

Anita Katyal | Why Hemant stays; few takers for Tharoor as Congress...

Not many are enthused with Shashi Tharoor's plan to contest for the party president's post

4 Sept 2022 1:00 AM IST

Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi chairs the Congress Working Committee meeting, in New Delhi, Sunday, March 13, 2022. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is also seen. (PTI)

Shobhaa De | Is Congress totally kaput... What can we expect next?

We are at a fascinating cusp in the country's political history right now. It's still too early to start saying, The...

3 Sept 2022 12:07 AM IST

Pranab, My Father: A Daughter Remembers

Book Excerpt | Pranab: How I had worked with Indira, Sonia, Manmohan...

I felt that while Dr Singh might not have been as aggressive as Pranab in voicing his opinions

10 Dec 2023 12:00 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses the Congress 85th Plenary session on its 3rd day, in Nava Raipur, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | At Raipur, Congress split between past and future

It was the common point of bemoaning of most attendees that nothing changes in the party, despite the defeats and that...

28 Feb 2023 12:10 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Chhattisgarh state President Mohan Markam and other party leaders during the 85th plenary session, in Raipur, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Congress plenary: The real stuff behind...

There is much more to the Congress carnival at Raipur than the speeches of Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul...

28 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi replies to the Motion of Thanks on the Presidents Address as Congress MP Rahul Gandhi listens to him in the Lok Sabha during Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Anand K. Sahay | Ideological conflicts set to intensify in run-up to...

Politics is at the bitterest it has been in a long time

18 Feb 2023 12:44 AM IST

Indias opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, speaks during a meeting as part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu on Monday, Jan.23, 2023. (Photo:AP)

AA Edit | Action on Rahul unites Opp., as people remain indifferent

Mr Gandhi and his series of misfortunes might actually be a blessing in disguise

29 March 2023 12:14 AM IST

The Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act 2019, that came into force from Monday, provides for a 10 per cent additional reservation for those not eligible earlier. The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha approved the bill within a week. So compelling were the provisions an inclusive agenda for the economically weaker sections (EWS) and explicit exclusion of the well-off that all parties were agreed a rare but welcome show of national consensus. (Representational image)

AA Edit | Scrap religion-based quotas; it's time to rethink all others

Home minister Amit Shah backed Karnataka government's decision saying it was scrapped because it was constitutionally...

28 March 2023 12:11 AM IST

Indias opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, speaks during a meeting as part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu on Monday, Jan.23, 2023. (Photo:AP)

Anand K. Sahay | Rahul's expulsion from LS: Is India at a turning...

The processes that have been adopted can be checkmated only through stout resistance by society and a show of...

27 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

The farmers are hard-nosed realists and they are not sentimental romantic fools like their urban supporters and urban opponents. Representational Image. (PTI)

AA Edit | Govt must talk to farmers, try to avert fresh agitation

The other demands the farmers have now raised include a total waiver of agriculture loans, pension and crop insurance

21 March 2023 11:27 PM IST

Opposition MPs protest in the Rajya Sabha during ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Friday, July 29, 2022. (Sansad TV/PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Time and tide will not wait for the Opposition to...

Time, however, like the tide, may be running out for the multiplicity of initiatives and their corresponding variables

21 March 2023 11:33 PM IST