A Tortured Beauty
You return from the Kashmir valley with a sense of overwhelming melancholia: it is a beautiful but tortured land. What should have been the Switzerland of the sub-continent is...
39 Indians missing in Iraq
The ISIS crisis hit home and rocked the parliament today with the opposition cornering the government over the fate of 39 missing Indians. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has...
Will Modi’s ‘Mission 44’ in J&K succeed?
Following the release of the BJP’s vision document for the state of Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the state to address rallies in Udhampur and...
Game is to hide: Srinivasan symbolic of deeper rot
Prime time news television thrives on the idea of a daily enemy, someone who can be court-martialled every night and then pronounced guilty by the news anchor playing the...
Cricket can kill
The tragic death of Phil Hughes on a cricket field has revived memories of another day. My late father tells me the story of the mood in the Indian...
26/11: lest we forget
Every 26/11, I offer a silent prayer for the victims of the Mumbai terror attack. Like so many south Mumbaikars, I felt directly connected to the act of terror....
Record turnout in 1st phase of polling in J&K
Despite calls to avoid elections from separatist leaders, and terror threats from other outfits, Jammu and Kashmir recorded a 70% voter turnout, without any untoward incident in the 15...
TMC MPs stage ‘umbrella’ protest in parliament
On the first working day in the winter session of parliament, TMC MPs wielded black umbrellas as a sign of protest in the black money issue. As a result,...
Murlibhai, my friend.
I suddenly felt 'old' this morning when at 5 am I got an sms saying Murli Deora had passed away. Murlibhai was the first politician I became a...