Wasseypur, immortalised in Anurag Kashyap’s violent two-part epic, is now more or less subsumed by the expanding coal town of...
Category: Writings On The Wall
Stumbling on Sonianomics
Writings on the Wall is a metaphor that emerged from travels across India, particularly but not necessarily during election campaigns...
In A Tearing Hurry-Ana
YOU have to be ridiculously parochial to say something as outrageous as what Haryana thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. Risks...
Coaching colonels in Bundelkhand, Einstein Public School in Lalganj
The talk,wherever you go chasing elections in Uttar Pradesh,is about education,jobs,better life,aspiration. Why we call this random series of writings...
Bengal stands up to ask for more
Every teacher in a journalism school and, subsequently, every guru in a newsroom tells you one central principle: never approach...
From Soviet Union in Alimuddin Street to a Watch Repair Shop in Singur
Some conclusions look obvious after travelling through West Bengal in the last week of the election campaign. One, that we...
When Lonely Lalu Misses ‘Gentleman’ Sonia, And A Muslim Calls Nitish ‘Sher Ka Bachcha’
Until the very untimely death of her husband (Digvijay Singh of the JD-U), Putul Kumari Singh was just a traditional...
A Mandate For Nitish Hope Kumar
I have learnt over the years that if you really want to know what is going on in our country,...
To Wistfully in Shillong
Every reporter pays his dues doing one beat, or story, in his lifetime. I paid mine covering the Northeast between...
Modi versus Modi
It is not BJP vs the Congress, or Modi vs Soniaben. Narendra Modi’s own voters will decide whether to re-elect...