At a public event for the release of my new book, Anticipating India, in Mumbai on May 6, I was...
Month: May 2014
156-Inch Heart
Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi and his key lieutenants have been carefully mature in underlining the fact that foreign policy...
Modi: Your time starts now
We had hailed the verdict of 2009 as an affirmation of the rise of an aspirational new India, leaving behind...
Before the Secular Dip, Hold Your Nose
Having made only four really short visits as a reporter to Varanasi, spread over almost four decades, I can’t be...
Taking The Poor Out of Poorvanchal
Probably one of the most convenient generalisations in Indian punditry is the concept of the Hindi heartland. As if the...
Huggies Diapers In Vaishali, Muslim-Dalit IIT-Jee Coalition
Bihar is the cradle of India’s post-1975 politics. The JP movement that provoked the Emergency and started the process of...
God has assigned a job to every individual
Congratulations on your Padma Vibhushan. Although every right-thinking person believes it should have been a Bharat Ratna a long time...