Eastern UP’s people want out of their sub-Saharan trap. Politicians, including the PM, don’t get it Badlands is one of...
Category: Writings On The Wall
Writings On The Uttar Pradesh Wall-I
Aspiration is turning into desperation. Nobody has much hope in an era of new Hindu Rate of Growth, and identity...
Writings on the Bengal wall
Reading the realigning colours of political India You sure can read the writings on the wall travelling through poll-bound West...
Gen Gana Mana of Youth
Aspiration screams out of every billboard in Bihar, and could well decide who gets to rule the state, come November...
East to west, money defines politics in India’s double-income, no ideology city of ‘freedom fighters’
Delhi is driven by greed, ambition and arrogant,freebooting cynicism as no other city in the country. AAP has figured out...
Hi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Modi in Mhara state
Writings on the Wall is a metaphor that emerged from travels across India, particularly but not necessarily during election campaigns...
Before the Secular Dip, Hold Your Nose
Having made only four really short visits as a reporter to Varanasi, spread over almost four decades, I can’t be...
Huggies Diapers In Vaishali, Muslim-Dalit IIT-Jee Coalition
Bihar is the cradle of India’s post-1975 politics. The JP movement that provoked the Emergency and started the process of...
The Rich And The Ostrich
Politicians and pundits both love to describe an election as a verdict from the people’s court. But it is, as...
Mere Pass Space Hai
It’s been a decade since Kolkata ceded to Mumbai its pre-eminence in globalising popular culture and serious literature. From Suketu...