Category: National Interest

A short history of Independent India’s strange priorities through a tour of Delhi’s avenues   Successive generations of Indians go...

Given the graph even the oomphiest of crime stories follows, chances are that the Sheena Bora-Indrani Mukerjea story is now...

Why India needs to set norms for tell-alls by security-bureaucrats. Speaking at the Indian Women’s Press Corps in New Delhi...

As the Indrani Mukerjea story plays out over the next few days, a most fashionable – and politically correct –...

Modi is by far India’s most powerful, domineering, instinctive-and very popular-political figure. Why then is his government floundering?    ...

The question that found solution to India’s most difficult political problem: too much stability   The quaint headline of this...

In my book, one of the first tell-tale symptoms of a government losing its nerve is when it starts attacking...

In a week of polarised politics, Naga accord is a reminder of Indian establishment’s continuity of big national issues  ...

And yet why a billion-plus Indians hail him as their most loved leader in decades It’s a reckless way to...

Change that 1991 started is now, in the 25th year of reform, trickling into the small town and the rapidly...