There are times my country drives me to despair. These tend to be occasions when the gulf between what I believe is right and what the authorities consider acceptable i...
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Let me start with an admission. I accept what I’m about to state could be coloured by the fact I have Covid. I would like to believe it’s not but I can’t be certa...
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Let me start by giving credit where it’s due – to Rajiv Bajaj, the Managing Director of Bajaj Auto, and Avay Shukla, a former IAS officer, whose recent blogs have b...
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Am I a killjoy or do I have good reasons for being apprehensive? The truth is I just don’t know. I can recognize valid arguments on either side of the issue I want to...
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Do you recall the pride with which Narendra Modi used to refer to India as the world’s largest democracy? He said it frequently in his early years as Prime Minister. ...
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Jaswant Singh was an enigma. There were times when he could be warm and generous and other occasions when he was cranky, pernickety and awkward. I never knew how he wou...
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I’m not the sort of person who has encounters with the police. In fact, it’s only happened once. I was 21, an undergraduate at Cambridge and clearly in the wrong. I...
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“How can our heroes be Mughals? asked Yogi Adityanath last week. To make his meaning clear, he added “anything which smacks of subservient mentality” is not accep...
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Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities but I’m less ambitious. I shall restrict myself to two warriors. They’re both in the news and they’re equally critical ...
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I could never have imagined when I first met Shankar Bajpai that one day we would be good friends. It was March 1980. He was Ambassador in Pakistan. I was a 24 year old...
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