Cry freedom

As a confused world tries to understand the tremors of Tunisia and Egypt, as they shake up much of the…

Is anybody out there?

Speaking at a memorial meeting at Birla Matushri Sabhagriha on July 13, 2002, a week after Dhirubhai Ambani?s death, I…

This death in Pakistan

The number of obituaries written ruing the terrible loss of Salman Taseer tells how popular he was among his fellow…

There are two Congresses

That what should have normally been the silly season turned out to be such a politically charged fortnight was probably…

UPA?s meteoric fall

Just a year back, everything looked as if it was playing out to script for the UPA government, and even…

So Nehru killed Gandhi!!!

The return of the RSS and, more importantly, its former Sarsanghchalak K.S. Sudarshan to the headlines gives me just the…

Athletes can?t run

On the day of the CWG badminton finals, I ran into Ashwini Nachappa, former track star who was once called,…

The India verdict

P Chidambaram says the media is over-analysing the Ayodhya judgment. He is right for the simple reason that this is…

Go, or get going

Here is a three-question quiz for the top leadership of the Congress party. One, do you want Rahul Gandhi to…

Rajiv?s tri-triumph

25 years on, his Punjab, Assam and Mizoram accords are a study in the generous power of Indian democracy

Is anybody there?

Let me ask you a trick question. How would you describe the UPA-II government, one that talks too little, or…

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