When it comes to its children, the political class is united. It’s them first. And it is the rest of us afterwards. But I don’t think that any of us will let it be. We recognise what the politicians are up to. They think that if they hold firm, the issue will die down and all of us will find other things to worry about. After all, they managed to get Manu Sharma out of Tihar jail without anyone noticing, writes Vir Sanghvi.

Why is everyone so outraged because Manu Sharma went clubbing while on parole? No, I haven’t ganged up with Ram Jethmalani, who seems to have lost his sense of propriety after taking Sharma’s case.

Manu Sharma’s conviction gave us hope. But his parole controversy shows that influential people can still twist the law for personal gains, writes Barkha Dutt.

There is more than something rotten in the state of West Bengal. And Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is its leading Shakespearean tragic hero, writes Sagarika Ghose.

Mohan Bhagwat is keen that a younger leader who works closely with the Sangh to further its ideology heads the BJP, writes Pankaj Vohra.