Looking back on the week, you can’t help thinking the windmills are really in fashion this season. Your television channels...
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Yes, Chief Minister
Nearly a decade of coalition rule now has produced many fundamental changes in our politics. But none of these is...
72 Hours, 21 Years
I suspect each one of us who covered the anti-Sikh riots as reporters in November 1984 has a persistent nightmare....
Liberate Our Cities
You have to give it to the very young South Bombay MP for having started a debate ‘ on these...
Our pipeline of control
Finally, our political and parliamentary debate is breaking out of the straight-jacket of national consensus. This writer has often complained...
The Bomb and the Bombast
Just a couple of weeks after Pokharan II and Chagai, I got into an entirely avoidable argument with a junior,...
Crippling the Doctor
One of the most remarkable events in our recent politics is the claim that after Left Front leaders met the...
Terrorists Rush in Where…
It would obviously be too far-fetched to read too much into the terror attack at Ayodhya and the serial blasts...
Incredible India’s Junk Yards
If you are still not shaken by the disaster that is looming, please look for the signs the next time...
1965 In 2005
In a part of the world where the craft of military history is as poor as the history and tradition...
Emergency’s Reality Czech
A second trip to Prague provokes a second thought on Emergency: why do we forget the strangling of our economic...
And the pot told the kettle
Some remarkable things have happened in our politics lately. One was Laloo Yadav wagging his finger at two great institutions...