I would have thought the Congress Party would look upon Shashi Tharoor as a prized asset, one of its most valuable members and a source of enormous pride. But, instead,...
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Odd as it may seem, I sometimes wonder if our judges are their own worst enemies. At times they can say the strangest things almost as if they’ve got carried away. Do...
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Most of us know a lot about the terror attack at Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor and the 4-day ‘war’. We’ve made it our business to find out. But there are other fact...
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I’m writing about what used to be a well-kept secret. Today it’s my intention to blow it to smithereens. It’s all about someone who’s not what he at first seems...
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I wish I had met Pope Francis. I wouldn’t say that of other famous people but of the Pope it’s true. He had a warm, genial, happy face. He smiled a lot and each tim...
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The abiding memory of my teenage years is reading Agatha Christie. On holiday from school, I’d spend hot summer afternoons stretched out on a sofa under a furiously w...
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It’s the strangest of paradoxes that Amarjit Singh Dulat’s book ‘The Chief Minister and The Spy’ should have so deeply offended Farooq Abdullah. Described in th...
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Should Doon School, which considers itself India’s premier boys’ boarding school, become co-educational? To be honest, this question has arisen earlier as well. The...
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As the name suggests, Sandhya Suri is a filmmaker of Indian origin. Her film Santosh was Britain’s official entry for the Oscars, it won widespread acclaim at Cannes ...
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Last week the Times of India broke the story about large sums of unaccounted cash found in Justice Yashwant Varma’s residence. Earlier, there was the case of Justice ...
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