At our usual gossip sessions in Mumbai over coffee earlier this week with a particularly cerebral star of corporate India...
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18.092013November 17, 2015
Such a long Lankan journey
From finding Tamil guerilla camps in 1984 to checking up on lost friends last week in Colombo This new, occasional...
14.092013July 15, 2015
Akhilesh, Young and Listless
Your view on Akhilesh Yadav today would vary with how you relate to him. If you are his Muslim voter,...
14.092013November 17, 2015
First Person Second Draft
Two vigilant readers have pointed out a factual error each in my series on the Sri Lankan war published earlier...
13.092013November 17, 2015
Uncovering the war
India’s unexpected war in Sri Lanka caught me on the wrong foot by 12, 000 km. I was still finishing...
12.092013November 17, 2015
Dead Men Talking
This is one box nobody would like to check on his CV. Not even the most battle-hardened hack. But, early...
07.092013July 14, 2015
The Congress’s Modi
Nobody doubts that Narendra Modi will be the NDA’s candidate for prime minister for 2014. The only question left is...
31.082013July 14, 2015
Dear Narendrabhai
WHY am I not addressing this appeal to adarniya Advaniji or my old friend Sushma first? Or to dear Rajnathji...
24.082013July 14, 2015
Current Accountability Deficit
Last Saturday (August 17), at a dignified little ceremony at 7, Race Course Road, the prime minister released the fourth...
17.082013July 15, 2015
Once upon a spooky time
Charbatia: Secret Base The funny and fascinating thing with spy stories is, that just when you think you’ve cracked one,...
10.082013July 14, 2015
Scared Witless
The UPA government looks increasingly like a band of nervous submariners sailing through hostile waters. They dive underwater at the...
03.082013July 14, 2015
Modi-Hit
Advertising and brand guru Alyque Padamsee has a favourite old line: I do not believe in repositioning my brand, but...