As Narendra Modi vies for a third straight term, an appraisal of the damage wrought by his Hindu-nationalist project—and the effort by ordinary Indians to reëmbrace the country’s founding ideals.

It is a measure of Rahul Gandhi’s conceit—and of his reflexive contempt for his compatriots—that he believes that a country as various and immense as India can be subordinated to the psychodynamics...

Naidu will prefer working with Modi to the opposition because he has the experience of dealing with—and of being duped by—Modi. This time, he has the antibodies.

To accept that the spectacle about to be staged in Ayodhya can be extricated from politics is to sanctify the falsification of our living memory.

Luckily for the YSR Congress Party—and for the Opposition in Andhra Pradesh—Jagan Mohan Reddy, although a dynast, is no Rahul Gandhi.

To appreciate the achievement of Shinzo Abe, who on Friday announced his decision to resign as Japan’s prime minister because of faltering health, consider the state of the country he inherited.

The Foreign Secretary’s blunders prove he isn’t cut out for serious diplomacy

As Narendra Modi vies for a third straight term, an appraisal of the damage wrought by his Hindu-nationalist project—and the effort by ordinary Indians to reëmbrace the country’s founding ideals.

Under his leadership, the country has degenerated into one of the world’s most unequal nations, worse than under the British Raj

Maldives may be small, but its people are as proud of their country as Indians are of theirs. They don’t deserve to be penalised as a whole for the sins of a handful of wretches.

It is a measure of Rahul Gandhi’s conceit—and of his reflexive contempt for his compatriots—that he believes that a country as various and immense as India can be subordinated to the psychodynamics...

VS Naipaul, who died on Saturday at the age of 85, was sustained most of all by self-belief. The society in which he launched himself as a writer was not created to support a man like him. It was...

Should Marine Le Pen lose this election, an outcome that looks increasingly likely, she will have stacked up three consecutive defeats

Let there be a new New Delhi, Narendra Modi decreed last year. It is the Indian prime minister’s “dream”, one of his underlings announced to the press, to bequeath the world’s largest democracy a…

It is obscene that a man so detached from India should occupy such a powerful position in a party that governed India for most of its republican history.

Accusations that an Indian official sought to kill a Sikh separatist in the U.S. expose the fragility of the relationship.

In the summer of 1991, India wore the appearance of a country on the precipice of permanent collapse. Picture the magnitude of the pandemonium that swept through the country. No sooner has Punjab…

In Chisinau the Left protests about Europe’s anti-Christian vendetta and the pro-Europeans fall foul of the ECHR

VS Naipaul, who died on Saturday at the age of 85, was sustained most of all by self-belief. The society in which he launched himself as a writer was not created to support a man like him. It was...

To appreciate the achievement of Shinzo Abe, who on Friday announced his decision to resign as Japan’s prime minister because of faltering health, consider the state of the country he inherited.

The Serbs forged their sense of a nation in a sustained fight against the Ottoman empire.

Hindu nationalists have done to Hinduism what Khalistanis and Sinhala supremacists did to Sikhism and Buddhism

The ousting of Sheikh Hasina has left a country in turmoil — and they see their neighbour as complicit in her government’s crimes

Pakistan's political playboy is sowing chaos