Category: National Interest

Pratibha, daughter of L.K. Advani, has recently produced a very impressive documentary titled Tiranga, on the history of our national...

An interesting feature of this Gandhian” anti-corruption movement, under the leadership of India’s most famous Gandhian since Gandhi himself, is...

At least, two things about Anna Hazare’s movement are indisputable: its dominant anti-Congress impulse, and its distinctly middle-class character. It...

The standout news story of this week was this newspaper’s defence correspondent Manu Pubby’s on the note of regret that...

What a pleasant feeling it is writing a curtain-raiser of sorts to a new Parliament session. A resumption of old-fashioned...

First the disclaimer: no,I did not attend any of Ghulam Nabi Fai’s now infamous conferences. Then the disclosure: of course,I...

Here is a question, and a proposition, rolled into one: Is Mumbai the new Calcutta? And the choice of the...

The ideological bent of the higher judiciary has never been a significant aspect of the glorious (and sometimes not quite...

The increasing upper crust impatience with our messy” democracy and the rising new,post-Jantar Mantar clamour for quick-fixes for the most...

Finally, there is unanimity at least on one thing in this capital city: that this has become our most dysfunctional...