If Indira Gandhi hadn t targeted the RSS, Narendra Modi wouldn t be sitting pretty with his second majority and looking at a third, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Gujarat was labelled Hindutva s crucible and Modi was to become the chief chemist .
A revealing political saga excerpted from Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay s The Demolition, the Verdict and the Temple: The Definitive Book on the Ram Mandir Project.
The BJP will enter this election, as it does every election, as if it is fighting to prevent a 2004-style defeat.
This is a party that wins big because it always behaves as if its back is to the wall, predicts Mihir S Sharma.
Most politicians and even non-politicians have been honoured because of what they were purported to be electorally worth for the ruling party of their time, argues N Sathiya Moorthy.