In old power capitals, gossip and rumour are more convincing than fact. Durbari Delhi is no different Delhi is the...
Category: National Interest
IPL vs drought – confusing competitive sport with nationalism
Hailing the ban on IPL matches in Maharashtra shows our perverse distrust of sports as a career of dignity and...
Assam’s 35-year saffronisation
RSS changed Assam’s political fault line from anti-outsider to anti-migrant to anti-Muslim infiltrator, and simply borrowed leadership from other parties...
Pakistan’s real 1,000-year war
Pakistan is a classical national security state which needs to be constantly at war with somebody, ultimately resulting in it...
State-sponsored anarchy
It is tough for us to focus on something as unfamiliar as the Sutlej-Yamuna Link, or SYL (no, SYL isn’t...
Vijay Mallya story is more about our easy embrace of cronyism
It exposes how we have built a giant power nexus where contacts and networks weigh more than balance sheets On...
Student of the year
One question for Kanhaiya Kumar, but a bigger, more vital one for the honourable judge Since this is the season...
Budget 2016 shows Modi is a reformer in retreat
The loss in Bihar has forced a change in NDA’s market positioning The Narendra Modi government’s third Budget confirms that...
Clueless in Kaithal
Why the ravaging of Haryana isn’t about caste or jobs, it’s about the “moochh” How does one explain to non...
Rage of the uncles
The perils of taking on young India’s campuses, especially when you are the wrong generation The Jawaharlal Nehru University-Kanhaiya Kumar-Delhi...