More than the people, elections in India are often about parties and leaders (photo: PTI)

Opinion

Elections: Have the people had enough yet?

It is a cliché that opposites happily co-exist in this country (photo: PTI)

Opinion

What we say and how we vote

Covid-19: Pandemic measures in India repeatedly came too late and proved inadequate to control fresh peaks. Who was making decisions, on what basis? (photo: National Herald archives)

Opinion

The Prime Minister in the pandemic years

Rahul Gandhi at the release of the Congress party manifesto for 2024 Lok Sabha elections. (Photo: Getty Images)

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Herald View: A blueprint to repair India’s soul, its democracy

The cave in Kedarnath he likes so much (photo: National Herald archives)

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My 'marg darshak' moment? We will know on 4 June!

Arvind Kejriwal at Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court (photo: PTI)

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Democracy on a ventilator

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and MP Jairam Ramesh during a door-to-door campaign in Delhi (photo: Vipin/National Herald)

Opinion

Why Elections 2024 will be a nail-biter

Rahul Gandhi (foreground) in Telangana (photo: @RahulGandhi/X)

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Why Rahul Gandhi says India will 'burn' if BJP returns to power

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Free and fair? Far from it!

Unemployed Indian youth set up an 'Achhe Din Pakoda Shop' with thanks to the Prime Minister's Pakoda Scheme for 'employment', in a demonstration against rising unemployment

Opinion

Should the sarkari economist go extinct?

Nirvachan Sadan, the office of the Election Commission of India (photo: IANS)

Opinion

Herald View: Making a mockery of ‘free and fair’ elections

Part of the Lovely University campus

Opinion

Nothing to lose but your freedom

Ajit Doval (centre) leads the Indian delegation at a recent meeting of SCO Security Council secretaries in Astana, Kazakhstan (photo: social media)

Opinion

What does India gain by cold shouldering the SCO?