Medals apart, one of the more stirring Indian moments of this Olympics came on Friday evening when Amit Kumar, still...
Category: National Interest
The PC option
P. Chidambaram is not exactly the most widely acknowledged Mr Congeniality in our politics. The BJP, egged on by the...
Shoot me, the messenger
The late Edward S. Behr (Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? besides much else), a delightfully versatile journalist-writer, used...
The Meena Kumari Politics
Last two years’ electoral politics has made one thing clear: You no longer win elections in India by reminding people...
It’s the Highest Office
Four interesting notions have lately emerged in the public discourse on the forthcoming presidential election. First, that the current jockeying...
The 24th Chief
He will count for no more than a footnote, albeit a sizeable, sad but unforgettable one, as his successors pick...
Crude Politics
UPA’s dismal political management turns a belated (and much needed) petrol price hike into an ‘event’ More than two months...
Anybody Out There?
Government’s inaction down the line is only matched by the silence at its top The flavour of this disastrous season...
Committee on Insecurity
That’s what the CCS has been reduced to: the top brass of this govt, each one looking over his shoulder...
Pranab, We Presume
It is not often that Renuka Chowdhury says something and makes you think. But in this case, you have to...