Cast aside on Campus
At the height of the FTII agitation last year, a senior minister rang up to complain at what he termed the “excessive” focus on the student protests. “These are...
Modi Pak policy: maturity or duplicity?
Heads of our soldiers are being cut but we are feeding their prime minister chicken biryani. This country is ruled by weak leaders,” Narendra Modi speech in May 2013....
Modi should alter style, Rahul substance
News channels always face a ‘dharam sankat’ when Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi speak at the same time. In the last few years the tendency has been to relentlessly...
Pragmatic Approach Needed
If the first week of a year determines the next 365 days, then the Narendra Modi government is facing its biggest test yet in 2016. The terror attack in...
A look at our netas’ 2016 resolutions
It’s that time of the year: The bells are ringing and carols are being sung. Since this is my last column of 2015, maybe it’s time to look ahead...
Azad: Hero or Zero?
My cricket memories of Kirti Azad are of him clean bowling Ian Botham with a ball that never left the ground during India’s semi final triumph in the historic...
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...