When you look back on a sharp, short and decisive war with the benefit of four decades of hindsight, you...
Category: National Interest
No Noose Is Good Noose
Can one be so daft as to find something in common between the new Press Council chairman, Markandey Katju, and...
Sporting Declaration
In a political power structure that runs mostly on wind energy, you would trust one of the most energetic young...
Be very afraid
Pakistan has been back in the headlines lately, and we have nothing to do with it at all. You haven’t...
Holier than Cow
In Vishal Bhardwaj’s Ishqiya , the most adorable uncle-nephew pair of tramps (played brilliantly by Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi)...
The Officer Raj
On the last working day of September, the Nandan Nilekani-led UID Authority received a rather clinical-sounding communication from the Comptroller...
Be Very Afraid
Pakistan has been back in the headlines lately, and we have nothing to do with it at all. You haven’t...
Decide On The Doctor
Here are the three most popular political questions these days: is UPA 2 dead, or not quite dead yet but...
The Game’s Gentleman
It is because nostalgia is an attribute so essential to the love of cricket that so much cricket writing is...
Unfair India
In these furiously confused times when fiction sounds so much sexier than fact and when scorn and anger seem to...