Poison in the Air
There is something toxic in the Delhi air. And no, its not just the deadly air pollution that is worrying. The smoggy air which our netas breathe is worse:...
Disruption agenda may send Winter Session towards deep freeze
The notion of ‘badla’, or revenge, has always had a special place in the Indian imagination: Remember all those Hindi films that centred around the idea of vengeance or...
TN Floods and the Tyranny of Distance
"You people don't care about us in South India, we don't exist for you," says a young man, angrily accosting me as we attempt a whistle-stop visit of Chennai's...
A day we must never forget
6th December 1992 is a day I will not forget: it was a Sunday and I had gone to office at the Times of India in Mumbai for a...
Dil Maange More
We are so used to parliament not functioning, that when it does debate, we suddenly wake up to the latent skills of our MPs (yes, there is much....
‘Intolerance’ and Khans
In his autobiography, the original Hindi film superstar Dilip Kumar writes of how he got his screen name. It was the Bombay Talkies owner Devika Rani who told him,...
‘Intolerance’ and Khans
In his autobiography, the original Hindi film superstar Dilip Kumar writes of how he got his screen name. It was the Bombay Talkies owner Devika Rani who told him,...
The Great Indian Election: Do elections change a country?
The former British prime minister Harold Wilson once said a week is along time in politics. He was probably wrong.: In India, a weekend is enough as I have...
Nehru, Ambedkar’s legacies shadowed by political partisanship
In 2012, we did a television show to identify the greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi (post 1947). The winner by some distance was Babasaheb Ambedkar; Jawaharlal Nehru just about...
Nehru, Ambedkar’s legacies shadowed by political partisanship
In 2012, we did a television show to identify the greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi (post 1947). The winner by some distance was Babasaheb Ambedkar; Jawaharlal Nehru just about...