Out, damn’d spot! out, I say!” cries Lady Macbeth as she stumbles about in her sleep but, as her co-conspirator knows, not all the ocean can wash off the stains. Like Banquo’s

To many who remember the politics of the late 1980s, this is a worryingly familiar moment for India. The two periods have several common features: a rudderless government, an insurgent

The multi-crore Bofors gun deal is back on the national radar to haunt the ruling Congress party, as the main Opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party, along with its allies, has decided to raise the