India, Sept. 21 -- One elementary principle of serving food is to ensure that the food is palatable to the visitor. If I am alone at home, I may be perfectly happy having a glass of milk with some por... Read More
India, Sept. 14 -- When the Constitution of India was drafted, its treatment of women was remarkably progressive for its time. It guaranteed equality before the law, prohibited discrimination on the g... Read More
India, Sept. 7 -- If you ask me which was the greatest news story I reported or commented upon during my 53 years in journalism, I would answer without batting an eyelid: the eradication of smallpox f... Read More
India, Aug. 24 -- Dear Shri Harish Salve Ji, I usually do not watch television interviews, except when the interviewer is Karan Thapar, a habit I developed when he made his debut producing a weekly b... Read More
India, Aug. 17 -- Knowledge is a vast ocean. Scholars merely dive into its depths, retrieve a few pearls of knowledge and wisdom, and, in the process, inspire others to dive deeper. My friend Dr RB Sr... Read More
India, Aug. 10 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah is often referred to as Chanakya, the ultimate master of statecraft. For starters, Chanakya, also known as Kautilya, is regarded as one of the greatest ... Read More
India, Aug. 3 -- There is an old saying that courts pronounce judgments, but history delivers the final verdict. Every now and then, however, history requires the assistance of a court to set the reco... Read More
India, July 27 -- Arrogance has always been the greatest enemy of those who wield power. It blinds rulers to the consequences of their actions, convinces them that they are infallible, and leads them ... Read More
India, July 13 -- There was a time when hardly any criminal case in Kerala stirred public imagination as deeply as the Madatharuvi murder case. Even today, I would argue that no other murder trial in ... Read More
India, June 29 -- Dear Dr S. Jaishankar, One day, when I went to my boss, the late Mr HK Dua's office, neither he nor his secretary was available. They were both busy contacting the management to cle... Read More