The vanishing act in Shimla The lingering image of the week is not Pervez Musharraf in his black sherwani reciting...
Category: Writings On The Wall
Chinese food, humble pie
Postcard from the edge—of irrelevance Is this China? Can this be Chinese territory? Is this one more example of the...
Stars and gripes
Harvard diary: flavours of the exam season Anybody who said the Indian examination system is oppressive had better come to...
The Punjab parable
In so many years of making a living covering troubled zones there were at least two occasions I was convinced...
Watching Generation X in Hindi heartland
The obvious question as you see Priyanka Gandhi rousing the family’s old electoral heirloom in Amethi is, why did she...
The borderline of peace
The latest buzz in the international strategic community at this moment is the idea, put forward by renowned US expert...
Anyone but India
It is a sad confession to make, but it is God’s own truth that the only reason I delayed writing...