I was only a child during the Vajpayee era so my knowledge about it is mostly second hand. I vaguely remember the last few days of his prime ministerial term, the India Shining...

Rahul Gandhi has promised to protect citizens who’s illegally constructed abodes face the bulldozer’s wrath. Among the other acts he put up on the same day, one was as described by a senior...

The cartel of convenience has taken its fight to parliament as the Winter Session kicked off. It has put on a farcical show of fake concern for a non-existent intolerance. The fact that...

Arundhati Roy has returned her national award. Clearly, the Modi government is doing something right.   Many small fish returned their national awards recently. We weren’t aware of their existence before they chose...

Nawaz Sharif ’s three-day trip to the U.S. this week was a mega failure. Nobody expected it to be otherwise.   The two countries share a strange relationship. After 9/11, Pakistan has obtained...

A concerted effort is being made to project India as an intolerant majoritarian state. This is a fairly new phenomenon which began around one year back, after Narendra Modi took over as prime...

When we speak proudly of a highly successful and prosperous diaspora, the underlying truth of an unfortunate brain-drain in India stares us in the face. Not that the entire phenomenon should be perceived...

I’ve been meaning to write an open letter to the Aam Aadmi Party for a while now. And what better time to write it than when its MLAs are on the verge of...

In June last year, a fairly unknown armed group took control of Iraq’s second largest city Mossul. Most people following this development didn’t bat an eyelid. A weak Iraqi government with militias running...

It is common for world leaders to be in the U.S. at this time of the year. The reason of course is the United Nations General Assembly’s annual session. Most leaders take this...

Last September, Narendra Modi was on his first trip to the U.S. as prime minister. The trip was covered extensively, and the energy around it was electric. Investment was promised, Pakistan was exposed...

On 15th August 2012, thousands of Indians from the north east who lived in Bangalore landed up at the railway station. Estimates vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand. All of them wanted...