Tavleen Singh
The Indian Express Group
Sunday 1 November '09
As a dutiful daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi always remembers the late Mrs Gandhi on her death anniversary.Sunday 25 October '09
Last week’s election results confirm that the political map of India is radically changed. There is only one political party left on the national landscape because the BJP....Sunday
11 October '09This week I would have liked to write about some peacetime subject like the Environment Ministry’s latest efforts to clean the Ganga or the World Bank’s new report....Sunday
4 October '09Every Gandhi Jayanthi, I find myself wondering if I should add my two bits to the reams of commemorative comment that Gandhiji’s birthday inspires. Usually I resist the temptation....Sunday
27 September '09Last week as I watched Indian scientists crow with glee over having found ‘water on the moon’ and TV anchors burst with unconcealed pride....Sunday
20 September '09Austerity is tough for those who have become accustomed to the high life, corporate style. Private planes, five-star hotels...Sunday
13 September '09At last there are signs that the Government of India has had enough of Pakistan thumbing its nose at us.....Sunday
6 September '09In these times of interactive journalism I make it a point to read the blogs this column evokes....Sunday
30 August '09There are few things that leave me feeling more pessimistic about India’s future than taking a flight from Mumbai’s international airport....Sunday
23 August '09Sonia Gandhi is right to ask her party legislators to sacrifice a portion of their salaries to drought relief....Sunday
16 August '09This is a requiem for the failed ideology of Hindutva and for the party that made it fashionable. The Bharatiya Janata Party is not fully dead...Sunday
9 August '09In the week that we finally passed a law making primary education compulsory, it would be churlish of me to write only bad things about the abysmal state of Indian education. So good things first.Sunday
2 August '09Many puzzling things have been said about our relations with Pakistan since the Sharm el-Sheikh engagement. Our Finance Minister told the Lok Sabha...Sunday
26 July '09Sunday
19 July '09India will not talk to Pakistan as long as its government continues to nurture and shield those who attack India....Sunday
12 July '09Last week’s Budget brought home to me a sad reality. It was not the Marxist parties who prevented economic...Sunday
5 July '09If I have learned one thing from long years of covering politics and government in India it is that one reason....Sunday
28 June '09The best thing that has happened to Indian education in recent times is for Kapil Sibal to be appointed Minister...Sunday
14 June '09Am I the only one shocked by an American official daring to suggest ‘dialogue’ with Pakistan in the wake of the release of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed....Sunday
7 June '09The day before President Obama set off to win Muslim hearts and minds last week, I had an interesting conversation about Islam....Sunday
31 May '09Last week, while the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi were choosing ministers for the new government...Sunday
24 May '09It was not so much Dr Manmohan Singh’s new ministers but the Tamil tableau that enthralled me last week.Sunday
17 May '09Before writing one word of this piece I spent many moments staring at my computer’s smugly blank screen wondering why the results....Sunday
10 May '09When Priyanka Gandhi’s clothes became a major political story last week, I realised sadly that it was time for me to stop being a conscientious objector to dynastic democracy.Sunday
3 May '09As someone who believes Indira Gandhi was India’s worst Prime Minister it shocks me when I meet people who think she was the best....
Epaper
Newsletter
Stocks
Weather
Horoscope
