Raised on a diet of RSS pedagogy at a Shishu Mandir, the writer looks at what it means when Nagpur...
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Broken politics, constant combatants
Why India Inc and party persons dare not share their anxieties with Narendra Modi or Sonia Gandhi – and how...
Why we should let Aurangzeb Road be
A short history of Independent India’s strange priorities through a tour of Delhi’s avenues Successive generations of Indians go...
Too Low? The News Peter, Indrani Mukerjea Sought
Given the graph even the oomphiest of crime stories follows, chances are that the Sheena Bora-Indrani Mukerjea story is now...
Three officers and their lost cause
Why India needs to set norms for tell-alls by security-bureaucrats. Speaking at the Indian Women’s Press Corps in New Delhi...
Dare You To Stop Watching Indrani Mukerjea Coverage
As the Indrani Mukerjea story plays out over the next few days, a most fashionable – and politically correct –...
Speaking truth to the great orator
Modi is by far India’s most powerful, domineering, instinctive-and very popular-political figure. Why then is his government floundering? ...
If Lallu is brighter than Mohan…?
The question that found solution to India’s most difficult political problem: too much stability The quaint headline of this...
The first sign a government is losing its nerve
In my book, one of the first tell-tale symptoms of a government losing its nerve is when it starts attacking...
Pass the baton, adversary’s turn
In a week of polarised politics, Naga accord is a reminder of Indian establishment’s continuity of big national issues ...
Everything that Dr Kalam was not
And yet why a billion-plus Indians hail him as their most loved leader in decades It’s a reckless way to...
Masaan and the new middle India
Change that 1991 started is now, in the 25th year of reform, trickling into the small town and the rapidly...
