Indians fed on a diet of military triumphalism for the past six years deserve to know why their government fumbled in its early response to China.

The shift from a defensive mindset to a more aggressive posture towards China was conceptualised by the UPA. It’s now up to Modi to use these tools effectively to restore the status quo on the LAC.

Media coverage has focused on the more “populist” proposals, but it is in fact the product of months of dialogue with the state's citizens.

It’s not easy to defend a failing flagship policy, especially when the central premise is shaky. When the foundation is built on wishful thinking, the supporting ‘evidence’ is bound to stray into fiction too.

Contrary to what a recent article has claimed, the increase in FDI to India has, in fact, been in line with the historical trend and the previous UPA government is the one that deserves credit for decontrolling diesel prices.

The government's impressive claims of saving electricity by switching to LED bulbs are based on overly optimistic assumptions made in a 2015 report, not actual usage.

The likely success of grand alliance in the recent UP polls suggests that the parties the BJP defeated in 2017 will put in a serious effort to get one going at the national level.

If we assume no major changes in the state elections held in 2018 and 2019 (a strong but unavoidable assumption since we can’t predict the future), the NDA approaches a Rajya Sabha majority only in 2020.

Playing fast and loose with facts to a willing audience has not hurt either Narendra Modi or Amit Shah.

Modi’s demonetisation drive marks an ambitious break from past practice. But his claim that previous BJP policies have brought in an unprecedented amount of money is just a jumla.

There is one inescapable problem: it’s hard, if not impossible, to judge a strategy that is designed to remain hidden.

The ‘Make In India’ campaign aims to make India a global manufacturing hub, but RBI data suggests that both FDI in manufacturing and the percentage of FDI flowing to manufacturing declined in 2015-16.

Narendra Modi seems to have developed a flair for presenting evolutionary policy steps built on his predecessors’ work as revolutionary and original contributions to national development.

As usual, there was a grain of truth along with the exaggeration and sleight-of-hand that we have come to expect from the prime minister.

Panagariya’s claims that the Modi government is responsible for an "infrastructure turnaround" are irrelevant, misleading or simply false.

What’s not clear is if there has in fact been a national upsurge in kidnappings or whether there are technical or procedural reasons that have raised the numbers.