Food in mouth problem

Wednesday 7 May '08

Understand the Indian farmer, only then can you have the luxury of railing against American presidents.

Caste by another name

Wednesday 30 April '08

Ignore it and you ignore what is an overwhelming social reality in India.

Two cheers for democracy

Saturday 19 April '08

See the quotas demand as a political movement with a natural trajectory

How he found & lost India

Thursday 3 April '08

Has this country really changed so much, or is it just Naipaul?

How to kill a tiger

Monday 17 March '08

And keep the species thriving in the wild by breeding it in captivity for body parts

That old market for votes

Thursday 6 March '08

Sixty thousand crores means a lot of money even in these ‘inflated’ times. In the pursuit of the votes of farmers...

Follow every pug mark

Monday 25 February '08

Document well, good citizens, we may be the last generation to see the tiger roaming wild

Conservatism's centre

Tuesday 12 February '08

John McCain seems to be the inevitable candidate of the Republican Party in the US.

Best of bad choices

Thursday 31 January '08

Two years after the rural job scheme began, the report card is more optimistically mixed than is obvious.

Phiphty-phiphty nation

Saturday 26 January '08

A person’s 60th birthday is very significant according to our ancient Sanskrit texts.

Track every rupee

Monday 14 January '08

Think-tanks must become the bridge between state initiative and private expertise.

Primary benefits

Tuesday 8 January '08

Watch the New Hampshire vote carefully today and take lessons in selection of MP/MLA candidates.

From Madras to Chennai

Thursday 3 January '08

I left Madras in 1971 and was relieved. Tambrahm pomposity and garish Dravidian political cut-outs represented...

Let’s wish them well

Saturday 29 September '07

India needs Pakistan to have a strong, stable state so that it acts as a buffer in a volatile neighbourhood

God is in Yojana Bhavan

Wednesday 19 September '07

Good for Greenspan. He has drawn attention to our elite’s quasi-religious fascination for socialist mantras

Bravo, waste-fare state

Thursday 6 September '07

Early numbers on the Employment Guarantee Scheme show fiscal profligacy is fine in this case

Operation Dr Singh

Monday 20 August '07

Why did Prime Minister Manmohan Singh give the interview to the Calcutta paper?...

An India of their Vision

Tuesday 24 July '07

Two writers, two perspectives, but for both Kipling and Rushdie, the theme is India

With a few pieces of gold

Thursday 12 July '07

Chandra Shekhar took a high risk way of avoiding a debt default. For today’s buoyant growth, thank him

That foreign alibi

Monday 25 June '07

Once we saw a CIA hand in everything, now our bureaucracy asserts itself by striking at NGOs

Blame the babu

Wednesday 30 May '07

Politicians undeservedly draw flak for shoddy legislation. It is bureaucrats who draft laws poorly

Not for king or country

Monday 30 April '07

Great academic institutions need freedom. Therefore, India doesn’t have great institutions

They are all Greenspan now

Tuesday 10 April '07

India’s central bankers are bringing the economic house down. Let’s question them, not fete them as oracles

Presidents may come... they may go

Tuesday 13 March '07

Post-9/11, Bush has turned out to be a good friend of India. He has emphatically resisted protectionist sentiments on out-sourcing and has tried hard to craft a nuclear deal with India

Protection of strangers

Monday 5 February '07

We Indians are like this only. And guess what, it keeps us safe