Today I want to play devil’s advocate. It is, after all, the name of a programme I make for CNN-IBN. More than that, it’s a well-established role for journalists to adopt. To question conve...
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It might come as a shock but not everything on the net is true. A lot, in fact, is disinformation if not outright nonsense. Worse, it’s deliberately designed to fool and I’ve often been caugh...
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I wonder how many viewers of the World Cup finals tonight will realise that of the three big games shown on television – the other two being tennis and cricket and, by the way, today’s the Wimb...
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I think we’d been married for about six months, a point at which the novelty of the alliance gives way to a quiet confidence that the deed is securely done. It was a saturday afternoon and Nis...
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I can’t understand why the Vice-Chief of the Army has apologised but I do think Sushma Swaraj should have done so – loudly, publicly, unequivocally and in the most cringing of terms. The fact ...
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I’ve come to the conclusion that Anbumani Ramadoss is the sort of minister we can do without. My grouse is not that he’s incompetent, corrupt or half-witted. For all I know he may be an excelle...
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Thank God for Rajiv Gandhi. I’ve just read his speech in the Lok Sabha of the 6th of September 1990 when the Mandal report was the big subject of controversy. It was a two and a half hour command...
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I’m old enough to recall a time when the phones did not work. No matter what you dialled, it was either engaged or you got through to a wrong number. Once in an interview to Peter Ustinov, Indira...
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There’s no doubt English is a rather peculiar language. It’s not just the way words are spelt and pronounced that’s arbitrary but the rules of grammar and punctuation appear to exist only to...
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As the debate on OBC reservations spreads, I’ve unearthed a few interesting facts which raise pertinent questions. Today I want to share both with you.

To begin with, do we have a clea...
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