With politics in the ascendant, both at home and abroad, I’ve spent the week reading a delightful anthology of political put-downs written by my friend and former col...
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When a situation is not clear but you can sense the implications and dangers, it’s more important to raise the correct questions than be certain of their answers. I b...
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Although I haven’t given the matter a great deal of thought I’ve begun to believe one of the critical differences between Indian industrialists and their Western co...
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The joy of WhatsApp is that you sometimes learn things you could not even have dreamed of. That happened to me last week. It’s a story not just from another time but ...
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If, like me, you believe in popping vitamins then you’re likely to be interested in today’s sentiments. I’ve been taking vitamin C for decades. Boots in London se...
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“You’ll love this”, Nisha said, as Remo started to sing. We were holidaying in Goa when she fortuitously heard of an open air Remo concert. This was one of the jo...
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Now that Subhash Chandra Bose’s statue stands under a canopy originally intended for a King Emperor – an ironic twist of fate, if ever there was one – let’s ref...
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The peril of power is often the verdict of history. Even the most famous can be felled by the judgement of their biographers. That’s certainly one of the outcomes of ...
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With two weeks left for the budget what are the prospects for the economy? The government believes with GDP back at pre-pandemic levels it’s poised for accelerated gr...
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I had no idea how seriously people can listen to convocation speeches. In my time at Doon School, I paid little attention to the chief guests’ Founders Day addresses....
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