The real identity of Lagadapati Rajagopal, the Congress party’s pepper-spraying MP from Andhra Pradesh, was not known to me till...
NATIONAL INTEREST
Arvind Chitra Katha
It’s the season for us, of the older vintage in the media ‘ starting with Arun Shourie, teacher to many...
1984 won’t end
This was Rahul’s, and in fact the Gandhi family and the Congress party’s, best opportunity to come clean. But it...
Left, Right or Standstill
In this season of conspiracy theories involving “evil” corporates, here is my humble contribution. That our greedy, thieving and cruel...
War and Relative Peace
On a flight back home Friday morning, as I was lost reading Eagles Over Bangladesh (HarperCollins, 2013), P.V.S. Jagan Mohan...
AAP versus VIP
Something quite remarkable happened this Thursday in our political history. Unless you can remember any other time when a vote...
Our Indian Feudal Service
Indian diplomacy has a well-deserved reputation for conservative understatedness. You’ve rarely seen a professional Indian diplomat grandstanding or headline-hunting. Not...
Help Us Imagine, Rahulji
On March 14 2008, Narendra Modi and Digvijaya Singh appeared together on a panel at the India Today Conclave in...
Disarming Kashmir
First, a disclosure. Narendra Modi’s call for a fresh debate on Article 370 is not the provocation for this week’s...
Aap Ki Adalat
At the heady peak of the Anna Hazare movement in 2011, the question we were often asked was, so why...
Or Else, Modi
The first person to call me that September morning in 2002 was a friend who had been present at a...
Conscience and Cowardice
Before the prime minister decides if there is still room for a decision whether he should go to Colombo for...