‘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,...
News Today At Nine: Aamir Khan Faces Flak Over ‘Intolerance’ Comment
Politics is raging over Aamir Khan’s salvo to the Modi govt over the atmosphere of intolerance in India.
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...
Bihar Elections 2015: Analysing Mahagathbandhan’s Big Win
A look at the major reasons behind the Grand Alliance’s emphatic win in the Bihar elections.
The Bihar Wave: My takeaways
A) Elections are always about arithmetic, occasionally about chemistry. 2015 Bihar has been about a bit of both: the caste arithmetic of the...
