Why 2 years after 9/11, this seems to be the New York state of mind: ‘It was just a day...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
Postal savings instruments to be dematerialised
In a move revolutionalising the small-savings market, the department of posts (DoP) has, in principle, decided to dematerialise postal savings...
The Kanchi trinity
Next to mutt is masjid, frowning at both is Periyar saying there’s no god, you fool. Recall this shining symbol...
Travels in Haryana’s Ahirland: Stirrings in out-of-sight, out-of-mind country
You cannot fault the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for not putting more prominent signs to announce the exit...
Havildar Shinde, Sergeant Romero
If we’re as sensitive to Shinde’s needs as the Pentagon was to Romero’s, we’d save many lives The unexpectedly large...
Politics in past tense
There could be a simpler explanation as to why this week’s ‘National Interest’ does not talk about the state of...
The HMT Advantage
From Kapil to Kalpana, Karnal to Cape Canaveral: Hail the rise of middle India While so many state governments rush...
Pseudo-campaignism
Despite all the confusion caused by opinion polls, exit polls and whatever the Gujarat throws up on Sunday there is...
Govt’s one foot, several mouths
IT seems that one of our former ministers visited Washington and caused so much confusion because of his pronounced Bengali...
The Modi Magnifier
The question in Gujarat is not who will win, or by how much. The first has been a foregone conclusion...