Washed out

Thursday 23 April '09

The Indian Premier League, version 2.0, has begun on a damp note. Will it recover?

Cricket can’t exist in la-la land

Tuesday 24 March '09

Prudence and preparation should be paramount, not muscle-flexing

‘You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war’

Thursday 25 December '08

What is the connection between a long forgotten US naval battleship that was blown up in the Havana Harbour in 1898 and the state of the post-Mumbai television discourse?

Eyes on terror

Saturday 29 November '08

Just after the attack on Gandhinagar’s Akshardham temple six years ago, a senior general with the NSG told me quite candidly...

Barack Singh Dhoni

Thursday 13 November '08

When George W. Bush barely scraped through in Florida in 2000, many Indian observers rightly pointed in glee to the successes of our own Election Commission and the inherent checks and balances in Indian democracy.

Narendra Modi 2.0

Tuesday 21 October '08

He might have crafted a whole new image aimed at Delhi, but can he shake off his history?

We were hand in glove

Tuesday 26 August '08

When K.D. Jadhav won India’s last wrestling medal at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 the celebrations at home were...

Smile, Sir Dorabji

Tuesday 12 August '08

Lesson from India’s first individual Olympic gold: its sport, like its democracy, must find a unique model.