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The Modi government may not be ready to act against Gyanesh Kumar, but allowing the controversy to continue carries its own risks.
The Tatas are too important to India for the whole group to be paralysed because of one man’s (Noel Tata’s) hostility to another man (N...
All talk of justice is momentary and transient. Arrests are no more than photo opportunities. Would Batman make a difference?
Modi is shrewd enough to realise that anti-incumbency is setting in and the electorate wants a leader who at least seems responsive to public...
The multinationals are content to profit from India but unwilling to include cigarette-package-style health warnings about high levels of salt, sugar,...
Does it really harm anyone if a man in Kolkata enjoys his beef biryani? Of course not. But it does harm us when we eat dangerously unsafe food.
It would be quite wrong to say that the Jantar Mantar protesters were influenced by PM Modi’s language. It is more likely that they were influenced...
N Chandrasekaran’s exit announcement has left many people at Air India feeling insecure about the future, the last thing the airline needs at the...
Narendra Modi's popularity has carried the BJP through three general elections. But when one leader claims every success, he also risks being blamed...
Being married to a fellow journalist can have its drawbacks. Over the last weekend Brunch published my wife’s (Seema Goswami, since you ask) column...
The police know that the media and public are usually on their side, so they don’t worry too much about being brutal. But there is one rule for the...
Nobody in power was smart enough to see that if the student protests are about your arrogance, the worst way to respond is with even more arrogance.
Modi govt didn't respond to the students' immediate demands because its ego took precedence. The attitude was, ‘We have seen off such movements....
No protest movement in the Modi era is ever going to have it as easy as the Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal movement did with UPA-2.
He is almost certainly the most influential living hotelier of Indian origin in the world. And ever since Sonu Shivdasani walked away from Soneva, the...
A society that distorts and devalues the past in an effort to promote the politics of the present damages itself and all those who live in it.
It’s the one London hotel where, over the last four decades, nearly every Indian of consequence from Prime Ministers to superstars like Amitabh...
Now that this flawed SIR exercise is being used to deny our very Indianness, it may be time for the Supreme Court to take a less passive role and...
Consulates and embassies are more sceptical of Indian applicants than they used to be. Too many Indians apply for tourist visas while their true...
Whatever you may think of Narendra Modi or Amit Shah or Yogi Adityanath, every one who voted for them knew what they stood for.
The grand liberal reawakening around the importance of the Congress as a great national alternative to the BJP has ignited a Mamata-in-Congress...
Indians are arrogant, but far from rich. That’s why we have become the world’s least welcome visitors. People may tolerate a rich fool. But nobody...
The Delhi Gymkhana Club is not the beating heart of India’s wealthy and powerful elite. Nor is it a bastion of the liberal establishment.
Much of what Modi asked Indians to do in the name of ‘economic patriotism’ was sensible. But nobody makes a speech like that in good times. Crisis...
Even in Indira Gandhi’s time there was so much disgust with the behaviour of Governors. Nothing came of it because every government always wants its...
At some stage, Modi will have to decide what the BJP stands for. Does it only stand for governance in Delhi? And does it need to depend on religious...
What Modi govt is doing to Arvind Kejriwal is wrong. But would there ever have been a Modi govt if Kejriwal and his India Against Corruption movement...
Had it been a poor woman shouting at Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan over the roadblock, the police would likely have arrested her, raided her...
What is the worst part of international travel? Most people will tell you that it is the flight. And yes, Economy Class flights can be uncomfortable...
If the government wants to spend taxpayers’ money to make India a better place, then spend it on building more courts, improving the collapsing...
It's been over a month since the war began. Where do Iran, Israel, US, Europe, Pakistan and India stand?
What is Asian hospitality? It’s a term that became popular in the early years of this century to categorise hotel chains from East Asia that were...
The only thing our deeply divided world can agree on is that Trump is a menace. Indians who once sang his praises have now turned viciously against...
What’s the best way to acquire skills? Learning on the job? Or attending a formal course? I guess it depends on the nature of the skills. If you...
Americans are happy only with wars that are fought as video games, where they kill thousands of enemy combatants and civilians, but where no Americans...
The truth is that hardly anyone in a position of authority in India acts out of shame or a desire to respect propriety.
If Rahul Gandhi is so useless that he functions as an asset for this government and a liability for the Opposition, why is the government trying so...
Something strange happens to Indians when you talk about the conflict between Iran and the United States. No matter what points you may make about the...
We must condemn any disrespect toward our President, but the incident involving Droupadi Murmu and Mamata Banerjee raises many questions, some of them...
New Delhi is too scared of Trump to lie about stopping the purchase of Russian oil, but too embarrassed to admit it to Indian citizens, so ministers...
Secularism may be a tired, washed-out concept in much of India, but in Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal, it still reigns in all its majesty.
From Deen Dayal Upadhyay's murder and Madhavrao Scindia's plane crash to the Gandhi family assassinations, so much of what happens in politics has...
If you are charged with a crime for which there is not a single scrap of evidence the judge will still send you to jail.
Just as some companies exploit gig workers only because they can, consumers make them run around needlessly only because we can.
The revolts in Iran are too massive to be ignored. But you have to ask yourself: why did it take so long?
Donald Trump seems to have rejected the old assumptions. He does not care that India is the world’s largest democracy. As for the Indian market, he...
The BCCI decision has given new life to the lunatic fringe of the Hindu Right. It now has the confidence to force policy changes in accordance with...
People who commit violence don’t fear the police. They know that they can harass others, attack shops or even commit murder without being apprehended.
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