India’s democratic depth was evident this past week as the entire establishment, left and right, came together to congratulate Kailash...
Category: National Interest
‘Haider’ in the time of hashtag nationalism
This week’s National Interest is about two things I am least qualified to write about: cinema and the insurgency in...
Being Sharad Pawar
In the run-up to the 2009 national election campaign, when Prakash Karat was taking away UPA allies and collecting all...
Making Sense Of Xi Slap
This bit of wisdom I learnt at school, even if it was not at my own. It was at New...
From May To September
This must be our most over-analysed set of by-elections ever. One obvious reason is that these relieve us from the...
Too bad you are dead, cheque is in the mail
Ordinary lives are cheap in India. So all government has to do in name of disaster management is to dole...
Getting His Foreign Policy Right
A busy foreign policy season first up in a new prime minister’s tenure is a gift, a bit like cricket’s...
There Is No Plan To Look For Allies For A Pre-Poll Tie-Up’
The BJP-led NDA will fight elections together and we will have a common minimum programme (CMP). We will sit together...
Stolen Power To The People
The mention of filmmakers Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar, or “actors” Loha Singh and Ritu Maheshwari, may make you wonder...
Pracharak Modi: True To His Mask
Answer this one honestly. In all your life, have you seen anybody else, or specifically, any public figure who resembles...