It is not easy to swallow the idea that someone so full of petty bombast is the prime ministerial candidate of the party most likely to win the next election.
What should be interesting is the reason why Rahul Gandhi is meeting journalists but off the record.
Intellectuals, writers and commentators, who embraced the A-word to denounce AAP forgot it completely when Reddy, Kumar and Chouhan used the tool of dharna to express similar angst.
Narendra Modi writes in this chapter of Juotipunj of Anantrao Kale, the educationist who set up many schools in Gujarat. Modi spent the mid-70s working with Kale to ensure the Janata Party's win after the Emergency, only to be disappointed by their subsequent attack on the RSS.
The RSS is an eight-decade old institution focussed on character-building. It is enough for a human to become humane, that is the mantra adopted.
Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt was also called the "trust buster", smashing America’s "robber baron" monopolies with ruthless reforms.
This “rarest of rare” business is something few really understand and the fact is that Indian courts keep sentencing so many people to death that rarest of rare has lost meaning.
If Andhra Pradesh is divided and humiliated like this, what about the rest of our states? We probably won't have a say.
Now that Lok Sabha has passed and Rajya Sabha concurred on conceding the demand for Telangana, who is running Andhra Pradesh now?
Modi also wrote a poem for him, titled The debt to the Rishi'. Modi's stark view of Hindu-Muslim relations appears to come from this mentor, affectionately Vakilsaheb.
China was an abysmally poor country at the end of Mao’s reign in the 1970s.
If Delhi was Arvind Kejriwal's stepping stone to national politics, Kejriwal can be India's stepping stone to change.
The RSS was not a river, and hardly a stream, when Bachubhai immersed himself into it as a student.
The fight between legislators in the Rajya Sabha brought back not so fond memories of similar incidents in the past. Here's a brief history.
The NCP has come to a determination that the Lok Sabha 2014 is going to be a tough battle and not far from what its partner Congress thinks.
Shri Babubhai Oza was for years in the senior-most position in the Gujarat RSS. Because of his last name (AP: Ozas are a Brahmin community in Gujarat) and the fact of his position in the RSS, it was assumed by others that he was a Brahmin. But since the RSS did not acknowledge caste, this was not taken seriously.
AAP leaders should refrain from interacting with media without any evidence. It brings down their credibility.
In this chapter of his book Jyotipunj, Narendra Modi writes about the founder of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in Gujarat. Dr Vishwanath Vanikar quickly made the VHP a popular and public-funded organisation, and worked in the tribal areas, resisting conversions.
If AAP candidates spent below their allowed limits for the Assembly elections, other candidates can follow suit in the Lok Sabha elections.
Rahul Gandhi's family or party have made the systems of post independent India, how can he blame it?
Muslim groups must study this data on participation of the community's young men and women in the civil service exams and see how to improve their position.
An entire generation of those whom Vasudevrao Talwalkar raised in the Sangh misses him today. And we, who were sheltered in the shadow of this gigantic tree, are forever indebted to him.
In this case, one of the AAP ministers made a mistake. Instead of admitting it, Arvind Kejriwal is supporting it. The Congress and its leaders also supported their ministers when corruption cases happened. Where is the difference between them and AAP?
We can castigate Bharti for his high handed behavioiur and his pathetic macho act, but to say Kejariwal is an arrogant politician may not be very appropriate.
Both of them are trying to expose but they don't have anything to expose.
Have you ever wondered how we the 'AAM AADMI' see this? Well I personally see it as a complete non-sense. I have my reasons to belive it too.
An agitation will never be appealing to all. But it is better to have short-term pains over long term endemic rut in the system.
The BJP should have been out on the streets demanding the same rights for the people
The Delhi Police has become a state within a state, drunk with power and practically no control within sight.
Sonia Gandhi has unquestionably revived the party. Rahul's job was to rejuvenate it, and he hasn't done that.