When the UPA government swung into action last week with a slew of economic “reform” measures, parallels were drawn with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s 2009 gambit on the India-US nuclear deal. Read more

LK Advani sees neither the Congress nor his own party, BJP, leading the next government in New Delhi. Not many would disagree with that perception, but few in positions such as that of Advani would be willing to say it in public. Read more

Census details for Delhi are out. From car-owning households to phone connections and Internet access, the city-state has seen all such “indicators of development” register robust growth between 2001 and 2011. And that is not surprising as everything has worked for Delhi to gain more than most other parts of country from India’s sweeping economic transformation over the past two decade. Read more

Some commentators and politicians likened it to the JP movement. Some called it the third wave of a “youth rebellion” that India has seen since Independence. The cynics dubbed it a “Page-3 movement.” Read more

The outrage that followed P Chidambaram’s remarks blaming the spike in crime in the capital on migrants may have forced the home minister to retract, but he didn’t apologise. Read more

Last week, my car was rear-ended by another speeding car. The damage was big enough for me to send it to the workshop for repairs that took four days to complete. Read more