One of the most abiding stories from my reporting years is Nawaz Sharif asking me, in complete, child-like innocence, how...
NATIONAL INTEREST
A Bharatiya Janata Pity
If there is one area of governance history would give the NDA good marks for, it is foreign policy. The...
Borderline Headline
Isn’t it funny, and happily so, how much economics dominates our political thought processes these days compared to, say, a...
Playing With Water – No, Fire
The SYL mess matches the Rubaiya disaster in its scale of govt incompetence. And in its unmasking of a political...
UPA needs an MBA (Coalition)
Sonia Gandhi has probably not forgotten her favourite line on the NDA. This government, she used to say, will fall...
It’s the Broker AND the Farmer
In the scorchingly volatile evolution of the post-election politico-economic debate, a fascinating new question has emerged, particularly after the market...
PM as Political Manmohan
Prime minister Manmohan Singh unflinchingly makes two confessions to those calling on him since he took up the top job....
A Hotline to Burkina Faso
From the CMP to the president’s address and now to the prime minister’s first address to the nation you see...
Step Out, There’s Fresh Air
Isn’t it fascinating how even in such a globalising world it’s foreign policy that is now emerging as a more...
It’s Manmohanomics, Manmohan
An essay in the latest Economist (May 29-June 4) that raises the question, “Who put the shine into India?” should...
Best Bakery vs Upper Crust
A full fortnight after the results, you can’t be blamed for being confused as to what this verdict was about...
Mr Vajpayee’s high ground, Mrs Gandhi’s road ahead
It’s always so easy to tell the loser what he did wrong. But you can’t do that to Atal Behari...