Unlike his earlier masterpieces, in his latest book ‘Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’, on the terrible attack that almost killed him, Salman Rushdie sp...
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Perhaps because it’s election time I’ve received a collection of aphorisms and quotations pertinently drawing my attention to a range of thoughts and concerns swirl...
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Normally I would not write about political manifestos. Most of the time neither the party nor the voter takes them seriously. But there’s a clause in Congress’s man...
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I guess it’s not uncommon that when someone you are close to dies you’re flooded with memories of the association with them. Incidents, long forgotten, return with ...
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Eighty years after it ended most people believe there’s very little we don’t know about the Second World War. Mukund Padmanabhan has just proved that wrong. Paradox...
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Politicians don’t like to be reminded of the past. For them it’s “a foreign country”. As L. P. Hartley put it “they do things differently there”. But that’s precisely what I intend to...
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My first bank account was with the State Bank of India’s Parliament Street branch. I was around 16 when Daddy opened it. It was to deposit my share of proceeds from t...
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Have you ever considered how much a book can reveal of the author’s personality? Of course, unless you know the person you would never think along these lines. But wh...
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A picture of Fali Nariman hangs on the wall opposite my desk in office. It doesn’t capture the gentle smile and twinkling eyes characteristic of him but it clearly co...
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If you’re someone who finds economics difficult to grasp and its agricultural subset befuddling, let me try to acquaint you with opinions from both sides of the sharp...
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