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A Monica Lewinsky moment

Sunday 7 February '10

There are weeks when I find myself defeated by all efforts to analyse Indian politics. This is one of them.
Aal is not well

Sunday 31 January '10

There is an exercise I conduct every year in Davos. I try to attend all sessions addressed by Indian political leaders....
Not quite cricket

Sunday 24 January '10

As someone who has no interest in cricket (not even 20/20) I find myself in the bewildering position this week of having to write about...
Do we deserve better politicians?

Sunday 17 January '10

Having spent my formative years in olden socialist times I pay close attention to political witch-hunts.
Can there be peace in South Asia?

Sunday 10 January '10

ON a cold and foggy evening last week, I went to see Shashi Tharoor....
A tutorial for Rahul baba

Sunday 3 January '10

Let me begin by admitting that the reason why I have rarely written about Rahul Gandhi in this column is because I find it hard to take him seriously....
Evil state power

Sunday 27 December '09

It saddens me that my last column of 2009 should be about injustice and evil but what choice is there?....
Between Hindutva and modernity

Sunday 20 December '09

Blackmail that works fast

Sunday 13 December '09

If you do not hear from me next week it will be because I am on hunger strike on a cold pavement near Jantar Mantar.
Tokenism will not do

Sunday 6 December '09

Who benefits if we succeed in cleaning up our filthy rivers and our polluted air? Who benefits if we succeed in preserving the tiger, the elephant and our forests?....
Plurality is the Indian idea

Sunday 29 November '09

IN our remembrance of 26/11 last week there was for me one really moving moment. It went unnoticed amid the cacophony of tawdry talk shows full of tawdry celebrities....
Incredible India?

Sunday 22 November '09

Every time I go to a country that used to be way behind India and is now way ahead, gloomy thoughts fill my head and as a responsible columnist I feel it my duty to share them with you. I write this week from Dubai.....
Manu’s parole shames us all

Sunday 15 November '09

The Home Minister needs enlightenment

Sunday 8 November '09

First, let me say that in my humble opinion the Home Minister is right to reach out to Muslims....
A legacy best forgotten

Sunday 1 November '09

As a dutiful daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi always remembers the late Mrs Gandhi on her death anniversary.
Elegy for the BJP

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....
India under seige

Sunday 11 October '09

This 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....
‘Gandhian’ field trips

Sunday 4 October '09

Every 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....
Moonshine for water

Sunday 27 September '09

Last week as I watched Indian scientists crow with glee over having found ‘water on the moon’ and TV anchors burst with unconcealed pride....
We need real austerity

Sunday 20 September '09

Austerity is tough for those who have become accustomed to the high life, corporate style. Private planes, five-star hotels...
A foreign policy for wimps

Sunday 13 September '09

At last there are signs that the Government of India has had enough of Pakistan thumbing its nose at us.....
Open to criticism

Sunday 6 September '09

In these times of interactive journalism I make it a point to read the blogs this column evokes....
Is this the infrastructure we deserve?

Sunday 30 August '09

There are few things that leave me feeling more pessimistic about India’s future than taking a flight from Mumbai’s international airport....
The drought could bring revolutionary changes

Sunday 23 August '09

Sonia Gandhi is right to ask her party legislators to sacrifice a portion of their salaries to drought relief....
Requiem for BJP’s dream

Sunday 16 August '09

This 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...
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