The Karnataka ‘nataka’: ten takeaways
15th May 2018 will go down in history as a day when Indian politics rewrote the Harold Wilson oft-used quote that a week is a long time in politics....
Battle for Karnataka : Ten Takeaways
Battle for Karnataka : ten takeaways. Ten days in Karnataka over two extended trips still leaves you with the stamp of an ‘election tourist’ but then that is my...
The end of a love affair
I am not quite sure when I first fell in love with cricket but the Australians certainly had much to do with my early infatuation. Eknath Solkar was my...
The Journalist as Neta
Should journalists enter Rajya Sabha on a political party ticket? That’s a question that gnaws at me after Kumar Ketkar, a friend and early mentor, became the Congress candidate...
Battle for North East: Ten takeaways
Maybe it’s the skill of prime minister Modi to convert every state election into a ‘national’ battle but never before has an election result to three small states in...
RIP Himmatwali!
Last night, as I tuned into my nightly ritual of listening to a song before sleeping, Sridevi was top of the mind. The tv news since the morning had...
When NiMo meets NaMo
When NiMo meets NaMo One good thing in the often joyless times in which we live is the flowering of satire and cartooning on social media (yes, RK Laxman’s...
A prayer for India in 2018
With apologies to the great poet-laureate, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, a prayer for my country in 2018. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high. Where...
The battle for Gujarat: Ten Takeaways
Having spent more than a week in Gujarat –a state that I regard as both karmabhoomi and Janmabhoomi –over three recent trips, here are ten takeaways from an election...
Cricket, My Father And Other Heroes
In a corner at home that I choose to call my private “cricket space’, there are pictures of my teenage heroes like Sir Viv Richards and Greg Chappell. There...