Jugalbandi is a term associated most with music—a partnership of two solo artists, who come together and perform a piece where the sum is greater than its parts. Vinay Sitapati, a political scientist who teaches at Ashoka University, Haryana, has drawn on that idea to describe the long, outwardly frictionless partnership between the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the nonagenarian …
PV Narasimha Rao’s shabby treatment largely owed to the fact that he refused to let himself be reduced to the status of a Nehru-Gandhi loyalist. Before the final journey began, Vajpayee’s body, wrapped in the tricolour, was taken to the BJP party office where the prime minister, home minister Rajnath Singh and other senior leaders were present. The funeral was …
)