Tavleen Singh
The Indian Express Group
Sunday 30 November '08
Last week’s terrorist invasion of Mumbai is doubly horrific for me.Sunday 23 November '08
Last week I had the choice of attending the World Economic Forum’s India Summit in New Delhi or going off to look at the election in Rajasthan.Sunday
16 November '08As ‘a grateful nation’ paid tribute to Chacha Nehru on his birthday last week...Sunday
9 November '08Ever since Barack Obama was declared the next President of the United States last week, it has become something of a national pastime in our ancient, broken-down country to ask why we cannot produce our own Obama.Sunday
2 November '08The least our political leaders can do is not make unfeeling, tasteless remarks after a terrorist attack.Sunday
26 October '08In the week of the gloomiest Diwali anyone can remember, there is one happy little group of Indians who have taken to gloating publicly over the meltdown of the world’s financial systems.Sunday
19 October '08The Global Hunger Index reported last week that more than 200 million Indians live in hunger and that 47 per cent of Indian children are malnourished.Sunday
12 October '08It is my considered and humble opinion that nobody would care one itsy-bitsy bit if the Bajrang Dal were banned.Sunday
5 October '08When the ban on smoking in public places came into effect last Thursday I did not know whether to laugh or cry.Sunday
28 September '08It happens that I was in New York last week when Sarah Palin met her first foreign heads of state.Sunday
21 September '08With jihad having got unnervingly close to the ‘Z’ security boundaries of Lutyens’ Delhi, terrorism has finally become the subject of high political concern.Sunday
14 September '08A Chief Minister, who shall remain nameless, told me in despair the other day that the latest Pay Commission was going to bankrupt several state governments.Sunday
7 September '08On a rainy day last week, in a lovely forest in Gujarat that is under threat from Adivasi claimants...Sunday
31 August '08Like many other Indians I woke early last Friday to watch Barack Obama accept the Democratic party’s nomination for President.Sunday
24 August '08As an ‘argumentative Indian’ it pleases me when someone starts an argument with me.Sunday
17 August '08As always I woke early on Independence Day to hear the Prime Minister speak.Sunday
10 August '08Last week as Jammu and Kashmir boiled over and the Prime Minister called on all political parties to come together and help calm the fires of hatred and violence...Sunday
3 August '08This is a topical column so I cannot avoid writing about terrorism in the week after three major Indian cities were attacked by jihadi terrorists.Sunday
27 July '08From the moment I saw those bundles of thousand rupee notes being tossed about in the Lok Sabha last week...Sunday
20 July '08When the debate on the nuclear deal degenerated last week into counting the votes of convicted murderers to save the Government...Sunday
13 July '08Of all the objections to the nuclear deal the most mystifying and intriguing is that the Prime Minister should desist from going ahead...Sunday
6 July '08Last week was without question the worst week in the life of the Sonia-Manmohan Government. The stock market crashed again.Sunday
29 June '08In these waning moments of the United Progressive Alliance Government when things look bleak on every front and even the monsoon is being tricky...Sunday
22 June '08One day we will remember Dr Manmohan Singh as the best Prime Minister India never had.Sunday
15 June '08Half of India’s children are malnourished. Half never get vaccinated against preventable diseases.
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