Tavleen Singh
The Indian Express Group
Sunday 24 May '09
It was not so much Dr Manmohan Singh’s new ministers but the Tamil tableau that enthralled me last week.Sunday 17 May '09
Before 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....Sunday
26 April '09At the best of times it is a bad idea to allow bureaucrats to run a country.Sunday
19 April '09This week I meant to bring you tales of horror from India that is Bharat. Tales that urban hacks like me garner only when there is a general election.....Sunday
12 April '09Half way through this election campaign the only thing that can be said with certainty is that it has mostly been a bore.Sunday
5 April '09Hindutva martial music blared against a backdrop of angry saffron as the aged Iron Man sat amid his ageing comrades and tried to look young and vital....Sunday
29 March '09‘Breaking News: For security reasons. Along with IPL cricket the Lok Sabha elections will be held outside the country.’.....Sunday
22 March '09They dressed up our two most famous Slumdog children in their Oscar clothes to go to Delhi last week to see the Queen.....Sunday
15 March '09As a huge fan of Barack Obama and a dedicated enemy of radical Islam it worried me to hear the American President talk of ‘moderate’ Taliban.....Sunday
8 March '09How sad that our Home Minister should have found the most unexpected way to link India to the terrorist attack in Lahore last week.....Sunday
1 March '09In this week of economic gloom I searched hard to find something to write about that would make you and me feel less gloomy.Sunday
22 February '09My column last week infuriated those of Hindutva persuasion. Especially the Bharatiya Janata Party.Sunday
15 February '09As a natural ally of the Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward women, my only objection to the Pink Chaddi Campaign is that large boxes of knickers are not being sent to the real villains of the piece.Sunday
8 February '09The arrival card I filled on the flight back to the Motherland had a mysterious new question.Sunday
1 February '09It is useless talking to Pakistan’s civilian leaders about what happened in Mumbai. They are not in charge of that unfortunate country’s foreign policy....Sunday
25 January '09After transiting through the chamber of horrors that is Mumbai airport’s departure terminal, when we collapsed, drained of all energy, into the controlled safety of a European aeroplane...Sunday
18 January '09Before writing this week’s column I looked up blogs on columns past and noticed that since the attack on Mumbai...Sunday
11 January '09So where do we go from here? How do we deal with our Pakistan problem? The short answer to that question is, nobody knows...Sunday
4 January '09It is my belief that the first column of a New Year should try to be cheerful no matter how bad the times.Sunday
28 December '08In the month that has gone by since the attack on Mumbai have we got any closer to dealing with Islamist terrorism? I fear not.Sunday
21 December '08As Shri Abdur Rehman Antulay unintentionally reminded us last week, India has enemies within her borders that are more treacherous...Sunday
14 December '08It is now just weeks before Barack Obama becomes President of the United States. So far it looks as if this will be a good thing for India.Sunday
7 December '08It’s hard to think of a time when the Government of India looked so shamefully like a wretched bunch of wimps than today...
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