India, Dec. 22 -- Mahatma Gandhi was never a comfortable figure for the Narendra Modi-led government. His name is invoked, his spectacles are displayed, his statues are garlanded across continents, bu... Read More
India, Dec. 8 -- The late Prof MP Manmadhan (1915-1994) belonged to that rare tribe of public intellectuals Kerala once produced in abundance-men who combined scholarship with activism, conviction wit... Read More
India, Dec. 1 -- I have always considered myself a temple-goer. That description may seem inadequate, for my journeys have taken me from the southern tip of the subcontinent to the Himalayan foothills... Read More
India, Nov. 24 -- It came as a surprise-though perhaps it should not have-that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited to deliver the sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture, as if the people of India had been ... Read More
India, Nov. 17 -- Man is, perhaps, the only animal that can imagine. This is our greatest gift and, at times, our most profound curse. There are no limitations to the worlds we can conjure within the ... Read More
India, Nov. 10 -- At a time when Jawaharlal Nehru is portrayed as the villain of the piece-whose so-called incompetence, we are told, led to the Kashmir problem and the country's slow progress-it was ... Read More
Idnia, Nov. 3 -- Let me begin with a confession: I am not a cricket buff. Never was. Never pretended to be. I do not wake up at ungodly hours to watch men (or women) in white or blue chase a ball that... Read More
India, Oct. 20 -- Dear Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma Ji, Last fortnight, I travelled to Sihora in Madhya Pradesh to attend the 83rd Christa Panthi Ashram Day. It was my third visit to that tranquil village,... Read More
India, Oct. 13 -- First, a disclaimer. Columnists rely largely on published accounts, not personal knowledge, while writing their pieces. It is seldom possible to verify every fact or investigate ever... Read More
India, Oct. 6 -- Dear Shri Bhagwant Mann Ji, Last Sunday, I took a few books to the church, including The Women's Bible and a book of devotionals, as I had to teach about the equality of the sexes in... Read More