I had promised to write specially to my fellow reporters. I am delivering on it now, sure enough, just before...
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Writings on the Wall is a metaphor I use for a different series of writings, from travels across India, mostly...
The Audacity of Incompetence
Nobody can reconstruct the 72 hours of Operation Blue Star in 3, 000 words. Or even in 30, 000. Books...
Talk Less
At a public event for the release of my new book, Anticipating India, in Mumbai on May 6, I was...
156-Inch Heart
Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi and his key lieutenants have been carefully mature in underlining the fact that foreign policy...
Modi: Your time starts now
We had hailed the verdict of 2009 as an affirmation of the rise of an aspirational new India, leaving behind...
Taking The Poor Out of Poorvanchal
Probably one of the most convenient generalisations in Indian punditry is the concept of the Hindi heartland. As if the...
God has assigned a job to every individual
Congratulations on your Padma Vibhushan. Although every right-thinking person believes it should have been a Bharat Ratna a long time...
There’s an aeroplane on my roof
It can break your heart to tell the story of the terminal decline of a state you so love, where...
Anticipating India
A selection of the pieces from the book (HarperCollins Publishers India and Express Book Series) that foreshadowed the big changes....