Tavleen Singh
The Indian Express Group
Sunday 6 January '08
On the evening that Bilawal Bhutto was anointed Benazir’s heir, I was with a group of politically opinionated friends on our side of the border.Sunday 30 December '07
In a chilling coincidence, it happens that on the day Benazir Bhutto was so tragically assassinated last week, I read of an earlier plot...Sunday
23 December '07The only political analysis anyone in India is going to read today is that which relates to Gujarat.Sunday
16 December '07In pursuit of meaningless communal and secular cards in the Gujarat election, we have missed something much more...Sunday
9 December '07When I heard Narendra Modi boasting that his policemen killed a man in cold blood because they suspected he was a terrorist...Sunday
2 December '07As a veteran political columnist I am often asked why I am so mean about politicians.Sunday
25 November '07How interesting to see Islamism raise its ugly little head in secular, Marxist West Bengal last week.Sunday
18 November '07The Indian state’s contempt for the most vulnerable, most voiceless of our citizens is one of its ugliest features.Sunday
11 November '07Whenever Pakistan lapses into its moments of martial law and repression, as happened with General Pervez Musharraf’s emergency last week...Sunday
4 November '07As someone who is convinced that Indian Communists serve as a Chinese fifth column in our beloved Bharat Mata, I look for every chance to expose their treasonous behaviour.Sunday
28 October '07The day we realise that our Muslim problem is not about secularism and communalism but about justice...Sunday
21 October '07It so happens that shortly before the terrorist attack on Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming procession in Karachi last week...Sunday
14 October '07Well done, Sonia Gandhi. Not words you would expect to read in this column and not words I expected ever to write.Sunday
7 October '07The squalour of India always shocks me for the first few days after returning from some foreign land but this time, because Bangalore was the first Indian city I visited, the shock sent me reeling.Sunday
30 September '07This week’s column is inspired by three things: the Clinton Global Initiative’s redefinition of the fight against poverty...Sunday
23 September '07Since the Bharatiya Janata Party’s political record in opposition in the past three years has been more inclined to the occult than ordinary politics,Sunday
16 September '07Is there really hope if, despite having the worst infrastructure in the world, we can argue over mythical bridges?Sunday
9 September '07Only a country that has been Third World and second rate for as long as India has could be frightened by a naval exercise.Sunday
2 September '07Last Sunday I woke up early and went to old Delhi to eat nihari in a little restaurant in Ballimaran, not far from Gali Qasim Jan, the street in which Mirza Ghalib’s old home dies slowly of neglect.Sunday
26 August '07As I watched Commissar Karat and his fellow commies charge the prime minister with bartering away India’s ‘sovereignty’ in exchange for the nuclear dealSunday
12 August '07When I find Marxists, Islamists, Hindutva’s ultra-nationalists and liberals of the bleeding-hearted sort in the same team, I instinctively head to the other side.Sunday
5 August '07If you or I or one of our loved ones was murdered in relative obscurity, how long would that case take? Forever?Sunday
29 July '07Shambo, the ‘sacred’ bull, got more attention last week than starving children in the suburbs of our richest city.Sunday
22 July '07India cannot make the 21st century its own without private investment in educationSunday
15 July '07As someone who spent years reporting on the events that led to Operation Bluestar and the decade of terrorism...
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