India Politics

March 2011: Lelyveld's 'Great Soul' was banned in Gujarat before critics had read it, while reviews sold Gandhi as weirdo, incompetent, faddist.

Three years after Aarushi Talwar's murder, the CBI named her father a suspect and a court summoned both parents. The case that broke India's faith.

In February 2011, Tehelka published the Liechtenstein list the government had kept sealed for two years: 15 names in the LGT black-money accounts.

On Jan 27, 2011, the government told the Supreme Court the palmolein chargesheet against CVC P.J. Thomas never reached his selectors. Sushma Swaraj disagreed.

Anil Verma, a senior Indian diplomat in London, was recalled in January 2011 after police questioned him over alleged domestic violence. His wife sought asylum.

In October 2010, separatist leader Geelani and author Arundhati Roy shared a stage in Delhi demanding 'azadi' for Kashmir — and ignited a national firestorm.

Forbes India named Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar its 2010 Person of the Year, honoring one of modern India's most remarkable governance turnarounds.

2G, the Commonwealth Games, Adarsh, the Radia tapes: 2010 was the year India's scandals made Caesar's standard of probity look naive.

A WikiLeaks cable quoted Rahul Gandhi telling the US ambassador that radicalised Hindu groups may pose a bigger threat than Islamist terrorists. The fallout.

After the Radia tapes surfaced, Ratan Tata moved the Supreme Court on privacy grounds and warned that leaking wiretaps could turn India into a 'banana

In December 2010, Home Ministry officials admitted roughly 6,000 phones were under interception — and the Radia tapes showed how easily the system leaked.

In December 2010, Pakistani papers ran fake WikiLeaks cables smearing India's military — until the Guardian's database search found nothing.

On December 8, 2010, the CBI raided former Telecom Minister A Raja's homes in Delhi and Chennai, plus four top officials, in the 2G spectrum probe.

Nitish Kumar's JD(U)-BJP alliance swept Bihar 2010 with 206 of 243 seats — a landslide for development politics that decimated Lalu's RJD and Congress.

Corruption in India is not a moral failing but an incentive problem: discretionary power, underpaid bureaucracy, and campaign finance.

The Niira Radia tapes — nearly 5,900 intercepted calls placed before the Supreme Court in November 2010 — exposed the lobbyist networks behind the 2G scandal.

India and Pakistan agreed to tone down the aggressive Wagah border ceremony after soldiers complained the high goose-stepping was wrecking their knees.

Article 370, AFSPA, and decades of military presence: what ordinary Kashmiris want is not complicated. Getting there is.

In the 2010 Bihar assembly elections, women outvoted men — 54.85% to 50.77% — quietly rewriting the state's political arithmetic as the fear factor faded.