Dil Maange More
We are so used to parliament not functioning, that when it does debate, we suddenly wake up to the latent skills of our MPs (yes, there is much....
‘Intolerance’ and Khans
In his autobiography, the original Hindi film superstar Dilip Kumar writes of how he got his screen name. It was the Bombay Talkies owner Devika Rani who told him,...
Nehru, Ambedkar’s legacies shadowed by political partisanship
In 2012, we did a television show to identify the greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi (post 1947). The winner by some distance was Babasaheb Ambedkar; Jawaharlal Nehru just about...
Open letter, part 2
What a fine letter you have penned (without wasting any ink!): it is reassuring to find that a graduate degree from Xaviers still has its benefits. Allow me to...
My Dear Aditya
Since this seems to be the season of open letters, I thought I'd write one to you too. Especially since we went to the same college: as a fellow...