What do you say when people ask you what difference do you see when you visit Guwahati after five years?...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
Pot’s blacker than the kettle
In their defence of the indefensible some BJP spokesmen have used one touching argument: that the Congress had no business...
Friends without life-jackets
On board Ariana: your life in their hands, your country in their heart IT was easy to call it Scariana...
Fear and learning in New York
Some quiet in J&K, few red faces in Pak: shouldn’t we get more out of Sept 11? If you lived...
Here a General, there a General
Everywhere, it’s Musharraf but Vajpayee doesn’t have to feel left out Atal Bihari Vajpayee arrived in Washington on Thursday evening....
Indian graffiti
The vanishing act in Shimla The lingering image of the week is not Pervez Musharraf in his black sherwani reciting...
Chinese food, humble pie
Postcard from the edge—of irrelevance Is this China? Can this be Chinese territory? Is this one more example of the...
Stars and gripes
Harvard diary: flavours of the exam season Anybody who said the Indian examination system is oppressive had better come to...
Kalam’s banana republic
Wrap science in the tricolour and you legitimise mediocrity To be fair to Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, it is possible...
Our hell on wheels
You don’t need Stephen Hawking’s intellect to figure out the many awful things that could have happened to him if...