I would say of the many ways of gauging a gentleman perhaps the most critical is grace in defeat. If that gentleman is a sportsman it’s even more important. How you b...
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If she were alive today she would be 106 years old. It’s odd I should recall Indira Gandhi because the truth is over the four decades since her assassination she’s ...
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Perhaps because I do it for a living, I’ve come to believe the best way of understanding a situation is to ask questions about it. Not only doe...
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One of the most beautiful sights in a democracy – and I use that adjective deliberately – is tens or hundreds of thousands peacefully protesting against what they p...
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It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of cricket. In fact, I barely understand the game. I rarely watch it. Consequently, I don’t know very many cricketers. But there...
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I am by no means an expert on Israel and Palestine. In fact, much of what I know has been acquired in the last two weeks. It’s the sort of knowledge sufficient to ask...
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I admit when Aakar Patel told me he’d written a novel I was stunned. I know and admire him as a perceptive columnist, an author of powerful critiques of the Modi gove...
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Whilst I applaud the alacrity with which the Central government sent a special CBI team to Manipur to investigate the killing of two Meitei students and the speed with ...
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Whilst I’d like to believe our government’s response to the Trudeau allegations, there are certain facts which, as a journalist, I think we should bear in mind. I d...
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Although the British are better known for their love of dogs, the preferred quadruped at their Prime Minister’s official residence is a cat. Known as the Chief Mouser...
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