On a flight back home Friday morning, as I was lost reading Eagles Over Bangladesh (HarperCollins, 2013), P.V.S. Jagan Mohan...
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09.012014July 24, 2015
AAP versus VIP
Something quite remarkable happened this Thursday in our political history. Unless you can remember any other time when a vote...
21.122013July 15, 2015
Our Indian Feudal Service
Indian diplomacy has a well-deserved reputation for conservative understatedness. You’ve rarely seen a professional Indian diplomat grandstanding or headline-hunting. Not...
14.122013July 15, 2015
Help Us Imagine, Rahulji
On March 14 2008, Narendra Modi and Digvijaya Singh appeared together on a panel at the India Today Conclave in...
07.122013July 14, 2015
Disarming Kashmir
First, a disclosure. Narendra Modi’s call for a fresh debate on Article 370 is not the provocation for this week’s...
23.112013July 14, 2015
Aap Ki Adalat
At the heady peak of the Anna Hazare movement in 2011, the question we were often asked was, so why...
16.112013July 14, 2015
Or Else, Modi
The first person to call me that September morning in 2002 was a friend who had been present at a...
09.112013July 15, 2015
Conscience and Cowardice
Before the prime minister decides if there is still room for a decision whether he should go to Colombo for...
02.112013July 14, 2015
My Sardar Vs Yours
In this season of competitive absurdity it is tough to say which one is more ridiculous. The Congress claim that...
26.102013July 14, 2015
The Accused
You have seen the government rise to defend the allocation of the Talabira coal block to Hindalco only because there...
12.102013November 17, 2015
Since 1989
After holding forth on the war in Sri Lanka in some detail last month (in a three-part series beginning with...
28.092013July 14, 2015
His Moral Highness
What does September 27, 2013 have in common with January 20, 1987? And why should we call it a most...