How can an Italian court murder Indian democracy?
The ancients knew their metaphors. They classified the state of a human mind into four categories, or 'humours', based on bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, melancholy and choler [or bile].
Gandhi, Chakrayya and Ambedkar
In May 1947, Mahatma Gandhi suffered a grievous personal loss. Chakrayya, a young Dalit disciple who had served at Sevagram Ashram since its inception in 1935, died of brain tumour. He was like family; the Mahatma's grief was palpable and public.
The way dynasties end
Success measures capability; a crisis tests an individual's or institution's maturity and resilience. Congress was hit by an explosion in
The ears of Astronomy
As an enquiry, science has generally left me perplexed. During first encounters in school, physics was a bit of blank and chemistry
Congress pays heavy price for GST obduracy
One can hear the silence and visualise jaw-drops in the Congress High Command drawing room at the results of a just released ABP News-Nielsen survey of the national mood. The figures speak for themselves.
At odds with ends
A curious role reversal seized Parliament for much of last year, resulting in apoplectic fits that bode ill for the health of the institution.
A cloudburst out of thin air
DELHI Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's outburst against the Union government after the CBI raided the offices of a member of his
Bluff is not course correction
The bizarre is not as distant from our political discourse as we might wish it to be. There are times, however, when a
May 9, 2016
How can an Italian court murder Indian democracy?
The ancients knew their metaphors. They classified the state of a human mind into four categories, or 'humours', based on bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, melancholy and choler [or bile].
April 17, 2016
Gandhi, Chakrayya and Ambedkar
In May 1947, Mahatma Gandhi suffered a grievous personal loss. Chakrayya, a young Dalit disciple who had served at Sevagram Ashram since its inception in 1935, died of brain tumour. He was like family; the Mahatma's grief was palpable and public.
April 3, 2016
The way dynasties end
Success measures capability; a crisis tests an individual's or institution's maturity and resilience. Congress was hit by an explosion in
February 14, 2016
The ears of Astronomy
As an enquiry, science has generally left me perplexed. During first encounters in school, physics was a bit of blank and chemistry
January 31, 2016
Congress pays heavy price for GST obduracy
One can hear the silence and visualise jaw-drops in the Congress High Command drawing room at the results of a just released ABP News-Nielsen survey of the national mood. The figures speak for themselves.
January 3, 2016
At odds with ends
A curious role reversal seized Parliament for much of last year, resulting in apoplectic fits that bode ill for the health of the institution.
December 20, 2015
A cloudburst out of thin air
DELHI Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's outburst against the Union government after the CBI raided the offices of a member of his
December 13, 2015
Bluff is not course correction
The bizarre is not as distant from our political discourse as we might wish it to be. There are times, however, when a
November 15, 2015
The deadly game of alibis
The terrorist assault on cities began in Mumbai: not Mumbai 2008, but Mumbai 1993. A series of coordinated bomb blasts in February
November 9, 2015
THE FOG OF OPINION POLLS
Perhaps Congress leaders think that things cannot get any worse after the nadir of 2014. Maybe they should think again. The reason is clear. Congress political tactics this year have floated out of the range of common sense.
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