Education and the overwhelming question

Saturday 8 November '08

As the principal of the college to which Rahul Gandhi referred, while expressing his unhappiness about higher education, I decided to interact with him to get a clear idea of what he said and what he did not mean.

Clash of conversions

Thursday 23 October '08

About five years ago, at the height of communal polarisation, I took a calculated risk in suggesting a voluntary moratorium on conversions as a Christian sacrificial investment in peace-making.

It’s not about quotas

Tuesday 17 July '07

Labeling the churning caused by the admission guidelines for 2007-2008 as the ‘quota debate’ is a sleight of cynicism. The debate is not about quotas.

Faith and fantasy

Friday 19 May '06

Why I don’t want Dan Brown’s ‘The Da Vinci Code’ to be banned