Dominic Xavier/ Rediff.com captures the election mood in and near the town of Shoranur in Kerala,

Dominic Xavier congratulates Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra as he scripted history yet again on Sunday by becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal in the World Athletics Championships with a big throw of 88.17m in the men's javelin final in Budapest.

Dominic Xavier offers his take on pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah missing the T20 World Cup because of a back stress fracture.

Dominic Xavier offers his take on the flurry of candidatures for the Congress presidential poll now that frontrunner Ashok Gehlot seems out of the race.

Dominic Xavier wonders how a rebel leader -- and clearly, Gehlot is one after Sunday's rebellion by his MLA supporters, no matter his assertions to the high command's emissaries that he has no links to the mutiny -- can now lead the national party which so badly needs the adhesive of unity and tender care.

Dominic Xavier offers his take on Adani group's takeover bid of of NDTV, arguably the rare English and Hindi news television network that is not part of what has come to be known as the godi media.

Will the Supreme Court take note of the case and ensure a respected civil servant is not punished for being in office at the wrong time?

Dominic Xavier offers his take on the Gujarat government's decision to release all 11 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for gang rape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven members of her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Dominic Xavier offers his take on the gruesome incident at a school in Rajasthan's Jalore district where a nine-year-old Dalit boy died on Saturday, August 13, after he was allegedly beaten up by a teacher for touching a drinking water pot.

Dominic Xavier offers his take on the murderous attack on Salman Rushdie in New York state last Friday.

If Nitish is as shrewd a practitioner of realpolitik as he is billed to be, we'd like to see if he can do the unthinkable -- break up the BJP legislature party in Bihar.

Dominic Xavier offers his take on the bitter face-off between the frail Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who will be 76 in December, and Union Minister Smriti Irani, 46, in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, July 28, 2022.

Dominic Xavier hopes President Droupadi Murmu will be a vigilant guardian of the Constitution and that her term in office will see glory days for the Republic.

Dominic Xavier offers his take on Indian cricket's Kohli Dilemma.

Dominic Xavier offers his take in the recent changes in GST.

Dominic Xavier offers his take on Gotabaya Rajapaksa's flight.

Dominic Xavier offers his take on the third increase in the LPG rate since May and the fourth this year.

Dominic Xavier offers his take on the city amidst the deluge.

Eknath Shinde claims he is the true inheritor of Balasaheb Thackeray's political legacy, not the Shiv Sena founder's son Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray. Dominic Xavier wonders which way this battle to be declared the real Shiv Sena will end.

Dominic Xavier offers his take on Eknath Shinde becoming Maharashtra's new chief minister.