Is there a Plan B?

Sunday 14 December '08

Pakistan is the best excuse invented for India’s dysfunctional politics to avoid all challenges.

Statehood for Bombay

Sunday 7 December '08

I grew up in Bombay, not Mumbai. In the 1950s, it was cosmopolitan and vibrant and a lot of fun.

The end of divisive politics

Sunday 30 November '08

It is over for the time being. The burning of Taj, the smoke billowing out from just below the beautiful dome will be the iconic image of India’s 26/11.

The fire this time

Friday 28 November '08

This is the most audacious attack yet on India. From India it demands immaculate sanity

Meltdown politics

Sunday 23 November '08

The financial meltdown is having a strange effect on politics around the world.

The shifting axis

Sunday 16 November '08

When Barack Obama became the President-elect of the United States, it was as if Europe had elected its own leader.

America Decides

Sunday 2 November '08

The manner in which the US has decided upon the two main Presidential candidates...

The Shastri effect

Sunday 5 October '08

I returned to India in the summer of 1965 after four years abroad. Panditji had passed away and Lal Bahadur Shastri was the PM.

For India, dangerous curves ahead

Sunday 28 September '08

Exactly a century ago in 1908, there was a crisis on Wall Street.

How not to go soft on terror

Sunday 21 September '08

India is weak on fighting terror. That much has been obvious, not just during the week or the month, but for 10 years and more.

A time to cheer

Sunday 14 September '08

During the Falklands War, some of us in the Labour Party were objecting to a few violations of international law.

Tatagiri

Sunday 7 September '08

Amarnath, Singur, Kandhamal - problems pile up. In a vibrant democracy with gross inequalities, people deploy their identities to register their claims.

Kashmir’s Best Friend?

Sunday 24 August '08

I spent a month in Pakistan in August 1998, exactly 10 years ago.

What Democracy? Whose Republic?

Sunday 17 August '08

On Monday, August 11 at a glittering gathering in the packed Central Hall of Parliament Prof Amartya Sen...

Kashmir: Crisis or Continuity

Sunday 10 August '08

When I was in my early teens, we used to have heated family arguments. The argument was not about property or family matters.

A fragile polity, a broken nation

Sunday 3 August '08

Comrade Surjeet to whom many tributes are being paid was famous not for a searing analysis of India’s problems.

Such Optimism, Jeffrey Sachs

Sunday 18 May '08

He is entitled to his faith in UN and corporate bodies. I place my bets on ordinary people

Blinded by Infinity

Sunday 4 November '07

Ramanujan’s life story is all the more enigmatic because his friendship with Hardy could not transcend the language of mathematics. But is that any reason for a biographer/novelist to desist from making an effort to know him?

Why Good Writing Works

Sunday 28 January '07

P. Chidambaram illuminates the crucial interface between economics and politics. His style is simple, austere, impressive.