India, Feb. 16 -- There is a popular expression in Malayalam: when the bull lifts its tail, one is certain what will follow. It is a rustic metaphor, blunt yet precise, used to describe events whose c... Read More
India, Feb. 9 -- It was the Hindustan Times' chief photographer, the late Arun Jetlie, who taught me how to drive in the mid-eighties. He would come home, take me in the car, and drive to the Raj Bhav... Read More
India, Feb. 2 -- I often receive suggestions from my readers about the subjects I should take up in my weekly column in this journal. Some are gently persuasive, some angry, some merely curious. Occas... Read More
India, Jan. 19 -- India speaks endlessly of numbers. We are now the world's fourth-largest economy, soon to be the third, we are told with chest-thumping regularity. But numbers matter only when they ... Read More
India, Jan. 12 -- Kapil Mishra is today the Law Minister of the Delhi government. As a local politician, he knows northeast Delhi well. He also knows what happened there in 2000, when communal violenc... Read More
India, Jan. 5 -- I have had a few occasions to visit the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, once at the invitation of the management to deliver the Christmas message. Those visits left a deep impr... Read More
India, Dec. 29 -- For the first time in my life, I received several messages wishing me a safe Christmas. Not happy. Not merry. Safe. For seven decades, Christmas greetings in my life have come wrappe... Read More
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