Jayshree Sundar, a top-notch advertising executive, had never handled a political account till she was hired by Congress in January 2004. She and her team went on to help script the party's spectacular victory against Atal Bihari Vajpayee's BJP in the Lok Sabha elections that year.

Neither Ajit Singh's party being part of the 'gathbandhan' nor the fact that farmers were in distress seemed to have influenced Jats in Western UP, who largely voted for the BJP.

Tracing the former BJP prime minister's career landmarks, dilemmas and ideological flip-flops in an attempt to answer the question: Who was Atal Bihari Vajpayee?

If Advani’s 1990 Ram Rath teaser-trailer threatened India’s composite culture for the first time since its independence, then the Modi era has unleashed sectarian violence on a scale previously unimaginable.

How the writer outgrew her obsessive anti-Congressism, became more empathetic to Dalit and backward caste aspirations and simultaneously came to view Hindutva as a threat to India’s social and emotional well-being.

Bezwada Wilson, the convener of the Safai Karamchari Andolan, talks to Vidya Subrahmanyam about the struggle of Dalits to restore the constitutional vision.