NATIONAL INTEREST

Nagpur, We have a problem

One of the walls in my office displays a selection of the most devastating works of E.P. Unny, now India’s...

1962, A Different Story

It is a sad but touching fact that nations and militaries tend to have stronger, more durable memories of their...

First Family, Second Nature

Usually, every time you start asking if the Congress party has lost its political instinct, it pulls off something entirely...

Vajpayees Atal

Here is one way you can put the life of Brajesh Mishra in context. If you asked the top leadership...

The Isro Spy Case Test

This week saw the return of a voice, and face, from a distant past in our headlines: former Indian Space...

The Mulayam Touch

Has Mulayam Singh Yadav gone gaga with age? Is he acting in dread of the CBI? Has he, the most...

The Foreign Hand-Writing

How many of you know who Mark Tully is?” I always ask the audience of senior officers at both our...

Fixerpreneurship

Here are some tricky questions we need to face, even if we cannot convincingly answer them. Is UPA 2 the...

Coal Vs Coalition

No, the BJP hasn’t lost it. It does not believe that the prime minister will resign just because it is...

We, The Ignorant

A venerable old teacher in my journalism school taught us the three example rule”. So here are the three I...

There’s a Gold Lining

Medals apart, one of the more stirring Indian moments of this Olympics came on Friday evening when Amit Kumar, still...

The PC option

P. Chidambaram is not exactly the most widely acknowledged Mr Congeniality in our politics. The BJP, egged on by the...