Silence please, we are in power!
“We don’t need to be told by media or opposition what we need to do for farmers. We would rather listen to farmers and not to carping, negative opposition...
Why India must play Pakistan more, not less
If paanwallahs in north India are a signpost for the election breeze, then taxi-drivers in London are often astute sports forecasters. When my London cabbie turns out to be...
Law above faith: Triple talaq is moment of truth for secular liberals
A good lawyer doesn’t allow personal convictions to get in the way of a challenging brief is one of the valuable lessons we were taught in law school. It...
Modi govt at 3: Caught between As, Bs, and almost a C!
In the world we live in, where nuance has little space, and where the news and instant opinion is polarised in black and white terms, I am dubbed,...
Tale of Two Daughters of India
This is the story of two daughters of India, both victims of horrific sexual crimes. Jyoti Singh was a bright 23-year-old, dreaming of a career in medicine that would...
Boycott Pakistani Mogambos on TV!
Last night, I was watching a familiar face from Pakistan venting bile on Indian news television: a self styled ‘political-military analyst’ Syed Tariq Pirzada has made it his professional...
AAP and the end of Hope
On the day the exit polls for the Delhi municipal elections were predicting a BJP landslide, AAP spokespersons were in a defiant mood, blaming the EVMs for a looming...
Kashmir: putting Indians first
The reality in Kashmir has always been crazily complex: this isn’t some good guys versus bad guys spaghetti western where the guys with the guns are good, those with...
Cow politics: Mahatma’s India vs Bhagwat’s Hindu Rashtra
There are many joys of living in Goa, but its gastronomic pluralism is easily one of the tiny state’s biggest attractions. On the day that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat...
TV news is in a crisis: Chapalgaonkar memorial lecture
Dear friends, members of the Chapalgaonkar family and fellow journalists of Pune, It is a great honour for me to be speaking at the Venkatesh Chapalgaonkar Memorial Lecture here...