The Air India carried two charismatic characters sitting side by side in September 1963. One was a Commonwealth Scholar, who was going...
A spread-eagled MS Dhoni, foxed by Mitchell Santner in the second T-20, is not a pleasant sight. And has raised many an...
Karl Marx wrote: “Britishers were the unconscious hands of history to promote economic development in India”. In similar vein after the RBI...
Albert Einstein wrote :Generations to come will scarce believe that such a man in flesh and blood ever walked upon this earth. ...
William Wordsworth wrote: “Bliss was that dawn to be alive, But to be young, was very Heaven”. Arjan Singh, was blessed to...
Raghuram Rajan was the poster boy of Indian middle class and a voice of the contrarians. His recent book “I do what...
By anointing Nirmala Sitararaman as the first woman Cabinet Minister in India’s defence ministry, Mr Modi has not only removed the glass...
The RBI, 8 months after demonetization, has clearly unmasked the farcial claim that it will weed out black money. On the contrary,...
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru used to keep Robert Frost’s famous lines on his bedside: “The wood are lovely, dark and deep, But I...
The Supreme Court has significantly widened the contours of right to life in previous judgements to include right to clean environment, education,...
I had the privilege of knowing both George Fernandes and Mulayam Singh Yadav, as Defence Ministers; George because of his impatience with...
Tim Richards, a celebrated lyricist, once introduced John Wright, coach of Indian cricket team, as the man ‘who put the cones out,...
There have been a number of articles, disapproving of Major Gogoi’s use of Farooq Ahmed Dar as a human shield to stop...
Prof. Upendra Buxi calls bureaucracy in India “the most imperious arm of the government. The Civil Servants very often consider citizens as...
It was Justice John Marshall who had observed in 1821 “A Constitution is framed for ages to come and is designed to...
Speaking on the forecourts of the White House (12th April 1999) Elie Wiesel, the holocaust survivor and a Nobel Prize Winner in...
The hero next door of the 1980s, Amol Palekar, who starred in middle of the road films like Chitchor & Gharaonda has...
Aakash Chopra is remembered as the doughty opener who blunted the Aussie pacers in 2003-2004 in a pulsating series in Australia, where...
The euphoria over Narendra Modiji’s visit to Odisha reminded me of enthusiasm when Mr. Barack Obama visited Mumbai on 26th November, 2010....
Alan Paton in his iconic book “Cry, the Beloved Country” (1948) wrote about South Africa as “a great peaceful country in which...
India’s growth rate of GDP for 2016-17 will be 7.1% as against 7.9% and is projected for the next year at 6.5%;...
UP accounts for 60% of India’s buffalo meat export of Rs. 40,000 crores, employing nearly 20 lakh population. The recent move by...
Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar has bowled a googly by suggesting that parties in conflict in Babri Masjid – Ram Janma...
With the sweeping win by the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and anointing of Adityanath as the Chief Minister, there is a perception...
Free Markets and State as a driver of growth, are on the face of it, oxymoronic. Yet Modi’s victory in Uttar Pradesh...
The battle for legal, civil and educational equality has been the leitmotif of feminism over the years. The first wave centred around...
The unruly blacked out trust vote in Tamil Nadu brings to the centre stage, the role of the speaker, the indefensible privilege...
In 1991, Dr Manmohan Singh rose in the Lok Sabha to quote Victor Hugo: ‘No body can stop a moment ,whose time...
My English teacher on 30th January 1968 read us the riveting prose piece, ‘The Light Has Gone Out,’ an epic address to...
Southpaws are a rare breed in cricket; they caress rather than bludgeon, and sizzle with their lofts and drives than mere muscling;...
Virat’s fulsome tribute to M.S. Dhoni, on handing over the mantle of Captaincy of ODIs and T20, could not have been more...
As CJI Thakur hands over charge to Justice Kehar today ,his last judgment that invocation of caste or religion will be a...
Kenneth Rogoff’s latest book “The Curse of Cash” could not have been timelier in the India context; as the 50 day limit...
The government’s announcement of LtGen Bipin Rawat as the next army chief, superseding distinguished seniors like Gen Bakshi and Gen Hariz, has...
As we celebrate silver jubilee of India’s tryst with free market, rarely one recalls PV Narasimha Rao with nostalgia; except for the...
At the end of the third day’s play in the Mumbai Test, with Virat Kohli scoring a magnificent century, Mike Artheton made...
I had the good fortune of travelling with J. Jayalalithaa to London on an Air India flight. Her co-passenger was Simi Garewal, with...
As India stands on the cusp of a series of attack at Uri, Nagrota, India’s response with a “surgical strike” has been...
Sixty years is a long time in the life of a Constitution; to savor its high points & fault lines. This...
In 1946, the Britishers did a surgical strike on hoarders and black marketers of World War-II, by demonetizing high denomination notes; and...