Ashutosh Varshney

• Opinion: Anticipating Modi's victory are two distinct groups

  Narendra Modi has turned the election into a referendum on himself, writes Swapan Dasgupta.

• Opinion: Op-ed: Are the people always right?

  Nothing is a better window to the Aam Aadmi Party's conduct in its 49 days in power than this passage from Arvind Kejriwal's book, "Swaraj".

• Opinion: Op-ed: Does it make sense to pulp books?

  So another book has died a premature death in India. Or, has it? To be precise, it is only a half death, for the book's digital edition continues to be available to electronic users. A banned book often generates intensely greater curiosity than a book in normal circulation.

• Opinion: Op-ed: How damaging are Narendra Modi's historical lapses?

  He is not in politics to please the scholar and the historian. He is an ideological trailblazer, seeking to win popular affection.

• Opinion: Op-ed: When Rahul Gandhi says he can't alter his ancestry

  Born in India, Ashutosh Varshney is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences, Brown University, where he also directs the India Initiative. Previously, he taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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  India will have 240 million users on Internet by 2014, who can swing an election: Google's Rajan Anandan

  There will be 240 million Indians on the Internet by the 2014 election, and that includes 70 percent of India's voters who can swing an election, search engine Google's India head Rajan Anandan said at NDTV's Solutions summit today.

• Nirupama Rao named visiting fellow at US university

  Former Indian ambassador to the US, Nirupama Rao, has accepted a one-year appointment as the Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow with the Brown-India Initiative at the Watson Institute for International Studies.