The Boston question

Tuesday 23 April '13

How could terror breed in the heart of a city so inclusive?

Hyphens and national unity

Wednesday 20 March '13

By permitting hyphenated identities, India has allowed national feeling to increase

Why India must allow hyphens

Wednesday 13 February '13

In this country, undifferentiated citizenship is an ideologue''s or a philosopher''s pipe dream with ghastly real-world implications

Modi needs a Vajpayee

Tuesday 25 December '12

Or, he must become one, if he wants to take national centrestage

Man with a Plan

Friday 14 December '12

Why it is wrong to blame Nehru for turning away from markets and perpetuating poverty in India

Raising democracy

Friday 30 November '12

Nehru''s unwavering support to institutions still shores up the polity

Growth and graft

Friday 26 October '12

Corruption may be an offshoot of high GDP rates without institutional change

Grand Unification Theory

Saturday 6 October '12

Sudheendra Kulkarni''s new book takes some liberties with science but the myriad ideas it pursues with erudition make it an absorbing read

Rural welfare, not Walmart

Monday 24 September '12

We need retail reform as India''s farmers must be connected to its rising cities

Moving to the city

Thursday 23 August '12

China has more political and legal space to urbanise than India

Modern like China

Tuesday 14 August '12

If it keeps growing, it could craft many novelties. But is it overbuilding, and who bears the cost?

The ravages of routine

Wednesday 1 August '12

Both the Congress and the BJP suffer from a vision deficit

The business-politics nexus

Monday 9 July '12

Money can''t really decide elections. But why does India''s poll finance remain so murky?

The right turn for BJP

Monday 25 June '12

Its electoral chances will depend on how it re-imagines its ideology

India''s moment of truth

Monday 11 June '12

Corruption now threatens to bring down a land of opportunity

Are the states too strong?

Thursday 24 May '12

In India, assertion by states doesn''t preclude, and in fact nurtures, national cohesion

A new dawn or false?

Monday 12 March '12

UP, long having put the nation first, may have learnt to look out for itself

The year of living angrily

Saturday 31 December '11

The friction between democracy and markets may be inevitable in India today, and only skilful politics can resolve it

The long shadow of the Ramlila stage

Wednesday 7 September '11

How Hazare''s movement is different from earlier transformations and why it might persist, anyway.

Has urban India arrived?

Thursday 25 August '11

Our cities have been estranged from the electoral space, and under-served by politics. This Lokpal moment is the best time to start healing that breach.

Rethink the communal violence bill

Saturday 16 July '11

The problem with the bill is not special protection for minorities. The NAC wrongly assumes that civil servants can solve everything, and that India''s future will be as riot-ridden as its past

State of civil society

Tuesday 14 June '11

Why we need to be precise in how we define 'civil society''?

Doomed by example

Tuesday 3 August '10

Why Maoists cannot deliver on their high-sounding promises of a better future....

State of the Union

Saturday 5 December '09

Does federalism weaken India''s response to terrorism?

What if Jinnah had won

Tuesday 15 September '09

The current debate over partition is radically incomplete. The debate has been framed around Jinnah''s desire for a federal but undivided India...