India Politics

On April 5, 2011, Anna Hazare began a fast unto death at Jantar Mantar for a strong Jan Lokpal Bill — with voices like Aamir Khan's joining the chorus.

April 7, 2011 · 1 min read

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

March 27, 2011 · 2 min read

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.

February 9, 2011 · 1 min read

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

February 7, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

January 27, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

January 16, 2011 · 1 min read

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

December 28, 2010 · 1 min read

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

December 23, 2010 · 1 min read

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

December 20, 2010 · 1 min read

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

December 17, 2010 · 1 min read

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

December 11, 2010 · 2 min read

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

December 11, 2010 · 2 min read

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

December 10, 2010 · 1 min read

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.

December 8, 2010 · 2 min read

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.

November 24, 2010 · 2 min read

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

November 23, 2010 · 1 min read

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.

November 20, 2010 · 1 min read

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

November 18, 2010 · 1 min read

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

November 12, 2010 · 1 min read

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.

October 30, 2010 · 1 min read