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Let ministers fly

Sunday 8 June '08

In olden days, when socialism was sacrosanct and we were so poor that foreign exchange had to be rationed...
Violence at our doorstep

Sunday 1 June '08

Why were Gurjjar mobs allowed to reach the borders of Delhi? In the end, the buck stops at the prime minister’s door
Common Minimum Government

Sunday 25 May '08

There were dinner parties and expensive self-congratulatory advertisements in the newspapers this week to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the United Progressive Alliance’s tenure...
This war that nobody is fighting

Sunday 18 May '08

It's time we faced a frightening reality. The Government of India has no intention of fighting jihadi terrorism.
Beyond the bomb

Sunday 11 May '08

Today is the tenth anniversary of India becoming a nuclear weapons power.
Poverty of ideas

Sunday 4 May '08

Last week I spent many hours listening to India’s richest men and most important politicians talk about poverty.
This debate on cheerleaders

Sunday 27 April '08

In view of cheerleaders at cricket matches having become our latest burning political issue, may I suggest that the Kama Sutra...
National Knowledge Omission

Sunday 20 April '08

There are usually two reasons why governments appoint commissions.
The myth of moderate Islam

Sunday 13 April '08

This is not a column that discusses cinema, but this week I make an exception because of a film I have just seen...
A casteist remark and a Dalit woman CM

Sunday 6 April '08

Well done Mayawati, for making that boorish old fossil Mahendra Singh Tikait apologise for his casteist abuse.
Will better pay bring better performance?

Sunday 30 March '08

If you have read this column more than twice, you know that I have deep contempt for Indian bureaucrats.
The Burra Sahibs we know

Sunday 23 March '08

Last week I met a man who to me personified the ugly Indian bureaucrat. I met him at the India Today conclave.
It’s Rahul baba’s turn to discover India

Sunday 16 March '08

Do you know what? If Rahul Gandhi were a teenager, I think I might understand this mad quest to discover India.
Our Forbes billionaires, in perspective

Sunday 9 March '08

In the week that we learned that four of the ten richest men in the world are Indian and that we have more billionaires than China and Brazil...
Reading between the lines of Deoband fatwa

Sunday 2 March '08

The scariest religious institution I have ever been to is the Darul Uloom in Deoband.
Democracy in a dangerous neighbourhood

Sunday 24 February '08

It's always a joyous occasion when a dictator falls, but even more joyous when it is a democratic process that ends his reign.
Educating the education minister

Sunday 17 February '08

If you read this column regularly, you know that one of my least favourite politicians is our Union minister for human resource development, Arjun Singh.
The question is of ‘implementability’

Sunday 10 February '08

Do you speak English, own a colour television set and watch the BBC?
Why NREGS is not a solution

Sunday 3 February '08

It took me two hours to drive from Mumbai’s international airport into the city last week.
Where tomorrow never comes

Sunday 27 January '08

Let me begin with a disclaimer. It is my considered opinion that Praful Patel is the best minister of civil aviation we have ever had.
Honour among thieves

Sunday 20 January '08

Who would have thought that the best advice Indian politicians have been given in the longest while would come from none other than the Badshah of Bollywood himself.
In Pak, deep distrust and one question: Is democracy possible?

Monday 14 January '08

Rarely has anyone in public life lost popularity as rapidly as Musharraf, Pak army too very unpopular.
Give them skills, not NREGS

Sunday 13 January '08

On a cold and rainy morning last week, I drove from Lahore to Islamabad on the best road on the Indian sub-continent.
Lahore still parties but there’s no mistaking the fear of the jehadi

Thursday 10 January '08

As they chant Go Musharraf Go, protesters ask him to wash his uniform, go to America and cry because his show in Pak is over
Through the Lahore fog, a clear picture of despair

Saturday 5 January '08

“Everyone in Pakistan cried that night. I tell you there was not one person in this country that did not cry.
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