Congress must stop playing hardball in seat-sharing and accept it needs allies for survival

Congress playing hardball in seat-sharing talks with INDIA bloc partners betrays stale delusions of grandeur. It has drawn wrong conclusions from Lok Sabha election results and conveniently overlooks its Haryana fiasco. Congress must come out of its make-believe world and accept that it needs allies for survival, and vice versa.

Toxic air is back in Delhi. It stinks of dirty politics

Situation normal, all fouled up—that’s the state of Delhi’s air pollution response. Criminal neglect of the public health crisis shows in the cyclical return of toxic air each passing year, despite promises by governments, interventions by courts and public’s appeals for help. The dirty politics is stinking up the air.