Rising prosperity has not changed attitudes, it has merely enabled us to exploit cheap labour as ‘domestics’ A well-to-do Gurgaon...
Category: National Interest
What Sena vs Sudheendra Kulkarni is really about
The motivations for the Shiv Sena’s return to hooliganism in Mumbai lie in simple power politics. But they have erred...
The canary and the deep state
Why Khurshid Kasuri may have his story-telling right but politics wrong What’s with top diplomats and birds? Sort of halfway...
Mainstreaming the Lynch-Fringe
Dadri killing is a chilling turning point in our politics, as no one condemns the mob outright Even after taking...
What Modi established with Silicon Valley focus
Enough has been, and is being, written and said about Narendra Modi’s visit to America coinciding with the annual gathering...
An unusual traveller
Even New York cabbies take note as Modi drops by. Can he use foreign visits to craft a larger agenda?...
Back to future on a postage stamp
Why RSS/BJP’s war against Nehru & heirs is as cussed as it is revealing about their lack of alternative heroes...
The war Pakistan lost and India didn’t win
Even halfway decent – and honest – military historians will tell you that the 1965 war was the last one...
Confessions of a Shakhahari
Raised on a diet of RSS pedagogy at a Shishu Mandir, the writer looks at what it means when Nagpur...
Broken politics, constant combatants
Why India Inc and party persons dare not share their anxieties with Narendra Modi or Sonia Gandhi – and how...