The Country Director of the International Growth Centre and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Statistics says this budget is not what the country needed.

Speaking specifically about Agniveer Ajay Kumar and the controversy over whether his family has received ex-gratia payment from the army following his death, Admiral Arun Prakash said the Rs 98 lakh insurance money they have got is not the same as ex-gratia.

Andrew Mitchell, a former secretary of state for International Development and now Conservative MP for Sutton Coldfield, in an interview with Karan Thapar, looks back on the time of Rishi Sunak as prime minister of the UK.

Edward Luce, the chief US commentator and columnist of the 'Financial Times', says the principle people who can persuade Joe Biden to stand down are his wife, Jill, and, possibly, his son, Hunter.

Lawyer Nipun Saxena tells Karan Thapar in an interview that new laws could create 'a police state' where the police can seek remand for longer periods, handcuffs can be used for a new category of offenders called repeat offenders

In a candid interview with The Wire, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen tells Karan Thapar, 'India will not tolerate being a divided country.'

'He can’t get away with insulting 200 million Muslims and, therefore, insulting us.'

Suhas Palshikar does not believe there will be any substantive change between the Modi government’s behaviour during the last 10 years and the next five.

Talmiz Ahmad, former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (twice), Oman and the UAE, tells Karan Thapar in an interview that it makes no sense that India should align itself with Israel on an issue where Israel has been accused of genocide.

Vikram Seth talks about his decision to translate the Chalisa, why he waited for over a decade to publish it, why he’s dedicated it to one of his fictional characters from A Suitable Boy, what the Chalisa means to him, how he distinguishes between Hinduism and Hindutva, how he views the Narendra Modi government and, more importantly, Modi himself.

"The request to the minister is to issue a simple notification deferring the implementation. Give the newly elected Parliament an opportunity to look at these laws."

The former Additional Solicitor General has appealed to the Union law minister to hold the three criminal laws in abeyance until they are further discussed and looked at closely once again.

'Will Modi treat the institutions of the Indian Republic and the media differently? Will these institutions change their attitude?'

Pavan Varma says when Bhagwat spoke about the need to “respect diversity, live together and respect others … (and) embrace goodwill to all”, he clearly had in mind the comments made by the BJP and Modi in particular during the recent election campaign.

Calling the results “a tremor that could have aftershocks”, Christophe Jaffrelot said that the “loss of majority is a setback for Narendra Modi precisely because he will have to make concessions and he’s not used to making compromises”.

The former RAW chief tells Karan Thapar in an interview that it is, perhaps, a reminder from Pakistan's ISI to the Modi government that they are very much around.   

“Surely, it cannot be a mere coincidence that an extremely rare event like doubling of stock market trading happened exactly one day before multiple exit polls unanimously projected an enormous victory for Modi.”

If Modi believes he has been sent by God or is God, “that should scare the daylights out of everybody”, Shah said.

Mukul Kesavan said the last few months saw “a communal and divisive campaign”. He says India emerges from the campaign as a “majoritarian democracy” which identifies itself on the basis of excluding rather than including people.

Ramachandra Guha says that despite the enormous challenges Nehru faced, the fact India became a credible democracy is remarkable.