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
October 5, 2015
If Left doesn't do God, it should try Godfather
Parties, like individuals, can become bed-ridden for many reasons; many have died an early death because of irrelevance. When an obituary of the Indian Left is written, it will be said that it died of complacency. It was not homicide, really. It was suicide.
August 31, 2015
HELL ON EARTH
When dust makes a story, there will be dust storms in the air. It is easy enough to blame media, but the media will travel only so far as public interest takes it. If there were no readers, there would be no story.
August 24, 2015
An anxious swivel-point in India-Pak ties
There is some confusion over the precise meaning of “talks” in the context of India and Pakistan. Both sides are committed to what is known as a “composite” dialogue, and this indeed covers all issues, including Kashmir.
June 14, 2015
Poison on menu at wedding feast
Marriage, noted George Bernard Shaw, the finest playwright in English since Shakespeare, is an institution that thrives because there are
June 8, 2015
Why Bangladesh isn't Pakistan
This week we can bury a misconception that has appropriated the subcontinent's discourse since 1947, when a Muslim League-British project partitioned the land in the name of religion.
May 11, 2015
A lion in the room
Political literacy can be determined by a simple measure; whether your mind is open or closed.
April 6, 2015
A premature Prize that has matured
One of the minor mysteries of this teenage century is how a toddler American President managed to win the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2008 after just weeks in office.
March 23, 2015
A searchlight for a spotlight
WE shall know soon enough which is the champion nation of contemporary one-day cricket.
March 20, 2015
America, Iran and Iraq: Partners,not friends
STABILITY is an illusion that nations advertise to comfort citizens.
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