Dilli Dur Ast for Congress
As the seasons change, there is a spring in the step of the Congress which suggests that a long and harsh summer in the political wilderness maybe ending. Rahul...
Remembering Sachin Tendulkar’s iconic Ranji Trophy debut
I had joined the Times of India in Mumbai in October 1988 and was struggling to find my young feet in the Old Lady of Boribunder. Having returned from...
Cricket, My Father And Other Heroes
In a corner at home that I choose to call my private “cricket space’, there are pictures of my teenage heroes like Sir Viv Richards and Greg Chappell. There...
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is still not out
On his first foreign tour as an India A player to Kenya and Zimbabwe in July 2004, Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s roommate was the Delhi and India opening batsman Aakash...
Cricket is about merit not dynasty
This is a problem in all our political parties. Akhilesh Yadav is a dynast. Stalin is a dynast… Even Abhishek Bachchan is a dynast… so are the Ambanis… Don’t...
Kerala needs a Narayan Guru, not a Yogi
Last Tuesday, the government of India seemed to temporarily shift its base to the BJP headquarters at Delhi’s Ashoka Road. A string of high profile Union ministers queued up...
Economy in Trouble but BJP still in pole position
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s great skills is the ability to change the media narrative with the power of political messaging and astute event management. So, earlier this...
Divided Media cannot provide justice to Gauri Lankesh
The year 1993 was Mumbai’s annus horribilis: The post-Babri demolition riots were followed by the ghastly terror blasts. What is perhaps less known is that that very year, a...
Team Modi: ten big takeaways
Every cabinet reshuffle gives us a sense of the state of play in a government and its chief executive. So what did we learn from the Modi government’s reshuffle...
Who will speak up for Hemant Karkare?
Asking inconvenient questions is what professional journalists are meant to do, so let me ask it upfront: Was Hemant Karkare, the Maharashtra police officer who was “martyred” during the...