Personally, Atal Bihari Vajpayee has admirers across our political spectrum. But even if you are not an admirer, you’d understand...
NATIONAL INTEREST
We need a UPA-NDA bus?
While it is true that our politics has been testing new lows in absurdity of late, a week like this...
The Craft and the Aircraft
The debate on the latest turn in India-US relations has moved between two extremes: from the US again betraying us...
A plane tale from the past
This is a story from the summer of 1996 that I had salted away for my memoirs, but am tempted...
Three Steps Backwards
You do not have to be a political pundit to guess what Sonia Gandhi will be asking herself once the...
Mumbai Shanghaied to Patna
Just a drive around Patna could help you see the ongoing slum demolition controversy in Mumbai in a comprehensive perspective....
It’s Politics, Stupid
If you read the editorials in the pink press they all seem to have major quibbles with this week’s announcement...
Falling off the Davos Map
You have to give it to the Chinese for not beating around the bush when it comes to the big...
Gennext is Gennow
What do you say when a straight-sets defeat for an Indian in Grand Slam third round becomes the stuff of...
Show them the money
India is among a handful of democracies that believe in total consensus and continuity in foreign policy which rarely dominates...
The Mind of the Insider
P.V. Narasimha Rao was the first serving prime minister I got to meet one-on-one in my reporting days and I...
Clarity begins at home
Having questioned, criticised and even ridiculed them all this while, you now have to begin sympathising with the Left. While...
