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Saving our matrubhashas

Sunday 7 February '10

Does Mumbai belong only to Marathi-speaking people? The answer is most emphatically and unreservedly No. Mumbai belongs to all Indians...
Preventing suicides in cities

Sunday 24 January '10

Triratna Prerana Mandal, a slum-based NGO in Mumbai, is one of those dedicated grassroots organisations where the grass of voluntary...
Khuda Hafiz, Pakistan?

Sunday 10 January '10

‘Khuda Hafiz, Muslim India!’ I was taken aback by this editorial in the December issue of the highly influential monthly journal founded by Syed Shahabuddin....
Reflections on time and life

Sunday 27 December '09

Since mid-2006 when I began this column, I have reserved the year-end piece for my reflections on the theme of Time. Is there any human being on earth who hasn’t reflected on this theme
Intolerance is a two-way street

Sunday 13 December '09

Underground and secretly maintained Krishna temples in Iran? Yes. And I’ll tell you why I am beginning this column on the...
Vajpayee a ‘pseudo moderate’? A canard

Sunday 29 November '09

The Liberhan Commission has indicted 68 persons in the demolition of the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid structure on December 6, 1992....
News on sale? That’s nauseous

Sunday 15 November '09

Democracy lovers, wake up. What you and I value highly is being increasingly devalued. What you and I cherish and pride in is endangered....
Indira and India

Sunday 1 November '09

A column on Indira Gandhi on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of her assassination must begin by paying sincere homage to her...
Bollywood or Mollywood?

Sunday 4 October '09

When I feel down and depressed, I turn to some book of poetry or philosophy to find solace and strength....
Lest IITs go the Air India way

Sunday 27 September '09

Why Sachin’s bat speaks to him

Sunday 20 September '09

In a game where opinions about players vary wildly, both experts and lay enthusiasts of cricket agree that when Sachin...
Advani will prove his obituary-writers wrong

Sunday 13 September '09

Nothing succeeds like success, and nothing damns you like failure. Success, especially in politics, hides blemishes, even unforgivable ones....
Towards a re-united Indian subcontinent

Sunday 6 September '09

The last day of August saw me travel to Solapur, a city in southern Maharashtra, to deliver a talk on ‘Mohammed Ali Jinnah and India’s Partition’....
The BJP’s self-inflicted wound

Sunday 30 August '09

The BJP’s self-inflicted wound following the publication of Jaswant Singh’s recently released book on Mohammed Ali Jinnah....
Was Partition inevitable? Desirable?

Sunday 23 August '09

History is a great teacher. But it can also be a great tranquiliser. People, especially those societies that do not nurture a deep historical memory....
Jaswant Singh’s graceless, baseless expulsion will haunt BJP for long

Saturday 22 August '09

Having just completed a near non-stop reading of Jaswant Singh’s magnum opus on Mohammed Ali Jinnah for two days, cover to cover and scribbling comments...
City of God, built by men

Sunday 16 August '09

August 15. All of India is awash in an animated display of patriotism. The morning air is filled with the strains of...
Re-enfranchise the poor in our cities

Sunday 9 August '09

SCENE 1. Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) near Kashmiri Gate, Delhi: I have come to meet Sanjeev Sahai, my former colleague in the PMO who is now CEO...
Walk the talk on better cities

Sunday 2 August '09

I am truly delighted by readers’ response to this series of articles on how to create better cities, and to the column that engendered the idea of the series.
Building better cities

Sunday 26 July '09

Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi houses the Ministry of Urban Development as well as the Ministry of Health....
Anyone for ideal cities?

Sunday 19 July '09

My column last week (‘An ideal village, an inspiring leader’) about how one idealistic and determined grassroots leader....
An ideal village, an inspiring leader

Sunday 12 July '09

The road from Parner to Hivre Bazar, in the rural expanse of central Maharashtra, passes through an arid land untouched...
What Rail Bhavan needs is reformist zeal

Sunday 5 July '09

Every time I travel in and out of the newly modernised Delhi and Mumbai airports, I am filled with both pride and pain.
Why Nilekani needs a broader mandate

Sunday 28 June '09

Dr Manmohan Singh’s government deserves kudos for appointing Nandan Nilekani as the head of a super-ambitious national...
BJP should keep off stagnant Hindutva

Sunday 21 June '09

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, whose ill-health has rendered him inactive for the past few years, was a deeply contemplative political leader.
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