Adjectives cannot convey the horror of what’s happened in Manipur. It’s beyond description. Instead, it’s been seared into our conscience like the dreadful Nirbha...
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I’m not well informed about caste and the invidious way it’s infiltrated our system. So it’s fortuitous good fortune that I was sent Manoj Mitta’s ‘Caste Prid...
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I’m going to start this column as I have never begun before. With a statement of intent. I shall strive to be as measured, balanced, objective and fair as I can be. T...
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It’s odd how the mind works. Sometimes stray thoughts can connect with other random ones to recall memories long forgotten. There’s nothing logical about it. It jus...
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Out of affection we called him Guru but, in fact, that is precisely what he was. Not a vishwaguru, as is the fashion these days, but a genuine, dedicated, caring teache...
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I’m not a sportsman and, frankly, other than squash I’ve never played any game. I find cricket tedious and needlessly long drawn-out. Football is better but only be...
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We, in India, believe a prime minister’s agreement to hold press conferences is the true test of his willingness to be accountable to the people. The fact he has to c...
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We all think we knew Atal Bihari Vajpayee, but did we? No doubt several people admired him, many thought he was a fine prime minister and practically everyone was encha...
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It’s a shame we don’t have a tradition of keeping diaries. The British do. From Samuel Pepys to Richard Crossman and onto Woodrow Wyatt they make for enthralling re...
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I’ve often wondered whether coincidences are just meaningless happenstance or if there is a deeper and richer meaning to them. Something we cannot understand or, even...
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