India, April 13 -- Normally I would not write about political manifestos. Most of the time neither the party nor the voter takes them seriously. But there's a clause in the Congress's manifesto concer... Read More
India, April 6 -- I guess it's not uncommon that when someone you are close to dies you're flooded with memories of the association with them. Incidents, long forgotten, return with an immediacy and c... Read More
India, March 30 -- Eighty years after it ended, most people believe there's very little we don't know about World War II. Mukund Padmanabhan has just proved that wrong. Paradoxically, he's written a b... Read More
India, March 24 -- Politicians don't like to be reminded of the past. For them, it's "a foreign country". As LP Hartley put it "they do things differently there". But that's precisely what I intend to... Read More
India, March 16 -- My first bank account was with the State Bank of India's Parliament Street branch. I was around 16 when Daddy opened it. It was to deposit my share of proceeds from the sale of ance... Read More
India, Feb. 25 -- If you're someone who finds economics difficult to grasp and its agricultural subset befuddling, let me try to acquaint you with opinions from both sides of the sharp divide over whe... Read More
India, Feb. 25 -- If you're someone who finds economics difficult to grasp and its agricultural subset befuddling, let me try to acquaint you with opinions from both sides of the sharp divide over whe... Read More
India, Feb. 10 -- I have no doubt the BJP politician I have got to know best - and through him his family - is Lal Krishna Advani. There was a time when I had clearly won his confidence and, on odd oc... Read More
India, Feb. 3 -- We're all familiar with deserters and turncoats. They're not as uncommon as one would hope. But would you agree that Nitish Kumar simply takes the cake? Although many were anticipatin... Read More
India, Jan. 27 -- If, like me, you are starting to despair of Indian journalism then you'll be pleased to know there's good news on the horizon. Admittedly, it's not work done for a television news ch... Read More