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We are guilty of lazy journalism. And we have forgotten that we are supposed to be writing that first draft of history and to do this involves...
It could be an exalted sense of my place in the grand scheme of things. It could be that when I sit down to write the first column of a new year, I...
Household consumption expenditure survey findings need to be correlated with other data, like those on wages.
Cross-border strikes by Pakistan and Afghanistan's retaliation mark a deepening of volatility in a fragile region
What matters now is that he will be remembered not for his flaws, but for the incredible transformation that he brought about in India with his...
What matters now is that he will be remembered not for his flaws, but for the incredible transformation that he brought about in India with his...
It is my view that the Home Minister spoke carelessly about Dr Ambedkar. But it is true that it had become fashionable to chant Ambedkar’s name by...
What really nauseated me about the shenanigans in Parliament last week was the hypocrisy. Manifest in the attempt by everyone on all sides of the...
It is my view that the Home Minister spoke carelessly about Dr Ambedkar. But it is true that it had become fashionable to chant Ambedkar’s name by...
In a country in which most people are illiterate in the ways of democracy these are dangerous ideas to propound because they can end up being...
Drug shortage could jeopardise success of government’s anti-TB campaign
A broader political dialogue between Delhi and Beijing is set to resume. It will bring opportunities for India, and challenges
But can this happen now that ordinary Hindus behave like holy warriors? On social media, while writing this piece, I spotted a video of a Hindu...
When the monstrous Taliban government announced last week that Afghan women would no longer be allowed to study medicine, my first reaction was...
All communities participated in Bangladesh’s Liberation Movement and its vision for an inclusive society is well-documented. Yet almost every...
As someone who has traveled in much poorer countries than India, I often say in this column, that there is almost no country in the world in which...
What difference will that make if the citizens of Delhi are forced to breathe poisonous air. If our sacred rivers continue to resemble drains. And...
Such a shame that elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand consumed our interest for most of last week. Then came the sensational news that Gautam...
Yogi Adityanath began using bulldozers to demolish the homes of rioters when Muslims took to the streets to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act.
First an admission. I glanced through Rahul Gandhi’s article on his economic ideology published in this newspaper last week and found it dull and...
First an admission. I glanced through Rahul Gandhi’s article on his economic ideology published in this newspaper last week and found it dull and...
The Prime Minister said some things last week that I found worrying and more than a little scary. Worrying because in this country that is the size...
Last week, yet another member of the Dynasty that has ruled India for most of her years as an independent country entered electoral politics....
Last week, yet another member of the Dynasty that has ruled India for most of her years as an independent country entered electoral politics....
There are some stories I tell with a sense of shame. This is one of them. The reason why is that I spent a day last week talking to some of the...
How many more elections does the Congress Party need to lose before it realizes that it is time to reincarnate itself as the political party it...
How many more elections does the Congress Party need to lose before it realises that it is time to reincarnate itself as the political party it...
This week I want to talk about ethics and corruption in public life. Not just because yet another chief minister has been found indulging in dodgy...
This week I want to talk about ethics and corruption in public life. Not just because yet another chief minister has been found indulging in dodgy...
In this column, I have explained more than once that as a political columnist my job is to write about politicians, their policies, their...
Every time political analysts and polls indicate that it is time to take Rahul Gandhi seriously, he trots off on a foreign visit and says enough...
Every time political analysts and polls indicate that it is time to take Rahul Gandhi seriously, he trots off on a foreign visit and says enough...
The dust has settled, the shockwaves that the results of the general election sent have ebbed. It is time for dispassionate analysis. This is...
In the film industry, they call it “compromise” without the faintest trace of irony. Maybe the word assuages some of the guilt in the man and the...