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Orders from HQ

Forget a week being a long time in politics, in India it can take just…

Try a little kindness

Has Gujarat really moved on ten years after the terrible violence of 2002? The answer…

Let’s play it straight

Here’s a story that perhaps best exemplifies how far Indian cricket has travelled. In the…

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Face the nation

On the face of it, a Narendra Modi’s politics is as different from Mayawati’s as…

Running out of steam

Lalu Prasad is the Pied Piper of Patna. One of the more special moments in…

Back to square one

Indo-Pak cricket, like diplomatic relations between the two countries, suffers from schizophrenia. Rewind to January…

Actions tweet louder

If the twitterati were India’s voting class, then Shashi Tharoor would be the Supreme Leader.…

Drowning things out

Having grown up in the megalopolis, I have an obvious emotional attachment to Mumbai. Which…

A star is born

In politics, never write off anyone. A few months ago, I was invited by the…

Still on a tinderbox

As the media goes into an overdrive on the first anniversary of last November’s Mumbai…