NATIONAL INTEREST

It is because nostalgia is an attribute so essential to the love of cricket that so much cricket writing is...

In these furiously confused times when fiction sounds so much sexier than fact and when scorn and anger seem to...

Pratibha, daughter of L.K. Advani, has recently produced a very impressive documentary titled Tiranga, on the history of our national...

An interesting feature of this Gandhian” anti-corruption movement, under the leadership of India’s most famous Gandhian since Gandhi himself, is...

At least, two things about Anna Hazare’s movement are indisputable: its dominant anti-Congress impulse, and its distinctly middle-class character. It...

The standout news story of this week was this newspaper’s defence correspondent Manu Pubby’s on the note of regret that...

What a pleasant feeling it is writing a curtain-raiser of sorts to a new Parliament session. A resumption of old-fashioned...

First the disclaimer: no,I did not attend any of Ghulam Nabi Fai’s now infamous conferences. Then the disclosure: of course,I...

Here is a question, and a proposition, rolled into one: Is Mumbai the new Calcutta? And the choice of the...

The ideological bent of the higher judiciary has never been a significant aspect of the glorious (and sometimes not quite...

The increasing upper crust impatience with our messy” democracy and the rising new,post-Jantar Mantar clamour for quick-fixes for the most...

Finally, there is unanimity at least on one thing in this capital city: that this has become our most dysfunctional...