There cannot be better evidence of the growing self-importance of the media that in a week which saw a significant...
Category: National Interest

A storyline for economic right
To the question he is often asked, whether or not the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is left-wing in its economics,...

Modi’s next test: The “other” minority issue
Much as you detest some old British politicians and their ghisa-pita old cliches, you can’t help falling back on them....

Waking up to a new ‘usual’
A conversation, factual or embellished, with a taxi driver has been the oldest ploy in the journalist’s book. Sometimes it...

Changing Course With Urban Discourse
Just as the history of mankind so far has been demarcated between B.C. and A.D., you can safely predict that...

Modi is what he is, and he is wearing it on his sleeve.
How would R.K. Laxman have commented in a cartoon on the excitement over Narendra Modi’s exclusive, pin-striped suit on the...

A new cold war: Money versus Military
Here is a proposition. That we have been so caught up in our own political change, concerns in the neighbourhood...

The Paper Tigers That Roared
Every capital city is a benighted one, New Delhi probably more than most. You do not track shifting winds by...

Our right to offend
On a night when every journalist and commentator in the world is taking a position on the Paris massacre, National...
Good Sense, Bad Laws And Ugly Politics
Between the purist and the pragmatic, there are many divergent views on the Modi Government’s latest ordinance blitz. My own...
