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Fifty years after: War of mutual incompetence
What exactly are we in India celebrating, and actively rewriting, a half century later? Some lines are so smart and...
Life, mind and times of Lalit Modi
He refuses to accept the reality that politicians hang together in the BCCI-and they win. There is no point repeating...
The Class of 1975
Why I call the Emergency a University of Democratisation: just take a look at its major graduates, right up to...
Northeast’s India problem
It’s simply this: The ‘mainland’ loses interest if ‘Indian’ lives and borders are not threatened. The greatest tragedy of India’s...
Zeroing in on five myths
Every country needs to protect agriculture. In reality, India passes that write-off to big business. When you speak nonsense, you...
It’s agriculture, stupid
Agriculture’s share in economic GDP may be below 15 per cent. In the electoral and political equivalent of GDP, it...
Why rural India matters: Agriculture’s share in economic GDP may be low but in electoral, political equivalent of GDP, it is about 60 per cent
Agriculture’s share in economic GDP may be below 15 per cent. In the electoral and political equivalent of GDP, it...
Council of newsmakers
Counting the 12 who count, and never mind some missing zeroes because a captain is ultimately as good as his...
The idea of Pakistan
Power structure of Pakistan entirely lies with its Army. It is about time we, including this writer, conceded that our...
Abki Baar, U-Turn Sarkar
Is making a U-turn necessarily a bad thing in politics and governance? Popular wisdom would say a resounding yes. The...
Reclaiming the road
Why the Salman saga is also about the sidewalk and roads that everybody deserves to share, irrespective of his net-worth...