If longer term solutions that fit with elephant ecology and local people needs are not worked out, this conflict is only going to get worse.

Telangana has only 17 Lok Sabha seats - conventionally too small a number to make a difference in the New Delhi political theatre. But if he manages to effect as vast a victory as he did for the state election - and India delivers a hung verdict - KCR's political orbit could expand exponentially.

Rahul Gandhi has finally ticked some very important boxes in his tenure as Congress President and can now happily take his new year break.

After the 2018 assembly election, perhapspolitical parties can muster up the commitment required to address these issues. After all, the rural voter is watching.

I know a lot of leaders and BJP workers are still confident of this: Modi vs Who? They feel he still has no match. My reply is this: the last election was all about Narendra Modi; the people this time have just one question - "kya hua, tera vaada?"

It is perhaps the silliest spat of the year. Since September, PewDiePie, a Swedish Internet personality whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, has waged a war of words with T-Series, an Indian record label and film producer. For five years, PewDiePie has been the most subscribed channel on YouTube, amassing more than 76 million subscribers. T-Series, ...

With empathy for India's marginal farmers, we must shift focus back to the rural economy.

Hubris never pays in Indian politics. The voter expects you to approach him humbly and seek both his vote as well as his forgiveness for what you have failed to deliver. He hates arrogance which the BJP acquired in plenty in the shortest possible time.

2019 has begun - with all sorts of possibilities. Take nothing for granted.

While the elections today may have paused the Adityanath juggernaut, party members believe that it is early to expect the BJP to speak the language of inclusion leading up to 2019. Some suggest that the BJP could take a more strident approach to hate politics in the hope of polarizing votes in the Hindi heartland.

These, the contestants, have arrived at the starting line for 2019. I'd wish them a happy new year, but the merciless mathematics of electoral politics means the new year cannot bring prosperity and fulfilment for all of them.

On the campaign trail in Telangana, KT Rama Rao used a cricketing analogy while speaking to NDTV. He was confident that like Virat Kohli, his father and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao or KCR "would hit a century in the Telangana test"

In the semi-final to the Lok Sabha 2019 polls, it is clearly a setback for the BJP, a comeback for the Congress and a big boost for Rahul Gandhi.

Rahul Gandhi has come through - this should be the headline in the papers tomorrow. After all the public scrutiny - and rejection - today is truly Rahul Gandhi's day.

The story that culminated in RBI Governor Urjit Patel's resignation probably began the day when the Modi government decided to appoint S Gurumurthy to the RBI's board. The swadeshi-spouting chartered accountant who believed that the RBI "has lost its capacity to think for India", and who had openly blamed it for the economic troubles of Indi...