Drowning things out
Having grown up in the megalopolis, I have an obvious emotional attachment to Mumbai. Which is why when at a studio discussion this week, when a panelist referred to...
A star is born
In politics, never write off anyone. A few months ago, I was invited by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leader, and politician of the moment, K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR)...
Still on a tinderbox
As the media goes into an overdrive on the first anniversary of last November’s Mumbai terror attack, we should remember that before 26/11, there was 12/3. Way back in...
Something’s got to give
One of the more joyous moments of fatherhood was taking my son, then all of nine years, to watch an India-Pakistan one-day match in Lahore in 2004. Our Pakistani...
In for a peasant surprise?
For someone who had finally been embraced by his party and anointed its new poster boy, Finance Minister P Chidambaram seemed awfully truculent a day after the Union Budget....
Reverse sweepstakesC
My father was obviously born in the wrong generation. For his first Test for the country in 1961, he got a cheque of Rs. 150. When he was part...
Married to the mob
Last Saturday, as India was celebrating a famous cricket victory over Australia in Perth, NDTV’s Ahmedabad office was ransacked by a mob calling itself the Hindu Samrajya Sena. The...
The new Advani?
In this age of instant punditry, it’s often easier to arrive at conclusions without even attempting an analysis. When the person in question is Narendra Modi, then it becomes...
All hail the party-pooper
Dev Kant Barooah’s singular contribution to Indian democracy was his coronation of Indira Gandhi as the Empress of India with his infamous remark: “India is Indira, and Indira is...