Do we have some of the world’s most traitorous politicians who won’t scruple to accept money from the KGB, the CIA or both? Or are attempts underway to malign them? The Mitrokhin Archives and...
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How good is Indian journalism? It’s a question the Prime Minister asked last weekend and in answering pointed out critical, if not damaging, lapses in accuracy and methodology and, most importan...
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There was a time when cartoons were titled Just like that or This is India. The caption reflected a fact few would deny : ours is an amazing country – surprising, perplexing, contradictory, pa...
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In India the smallest thing can turn into a controversy. But when Rahul Gandhi’s ‘interview’ to Tehelka metamorphosed into a political football only the Congress Party and the magazine wer...
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“And how’s the young lady this evening?”

It was Col. Mukherjee. His cheerful greeting was aimed at Mummy as he entered the ICU at the Army’s Research and Referral Hospital.

Pertie has a knack of asking innocent questions that lead to devious outcomes. And he can pick the most innocuous of moments for doing this. Last week we were waiting outside a cinema hall when h...
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Pertie has a knack of asking innocent questions that lead to devious outcomes. And he can pick the most innocuous of moments for doing this. Last week we were waiting outside a cinema hall when h...
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I find it perplexing that a country with 5000 years of history doesn’t know how to handle the subject in its films. We don’t simply romanticise or exaggerate. We distort to the point of utter...
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It’s been a depressing week. Not just because the Nanavati Report and the Government’s inexplicable response have dismayed me. (To be honest, I hadn’t expected much else.) Nor because the ...
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It’s odd how a stray remark can spark off a whole train of thought. I was in office when it happened to me

“What are those little numbers at the bottom of the television screen?”...
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