Nancy Mitford’s thoughts turned to love in a cold climate. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s went in a very similar direction except it was a time of cholera. Mine, I’m af...
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I believe free speech is the defining characteristic of a democracy. It even precedes the right to remove a government. And to be truly meaningful, free speech cannot e...
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Prepare yourselves for a bit of a shock and it has nothing to do with Coronavirus. But it is, nonetheless, distressing. As many as 83 Indian soldiers are said to be in ...
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It was ‘Zeeks’ Sinha at Doon School who first taught me there are two Indian monarchs we can legitimately consider ‘Great’, Ashoka in the 3rd century BC and, ei...
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The Oxford english dictionary says one of the meanings of justice is fairness. It’s a quality we instinctively understand. Even children can sense when someone has no...
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Frankly, I’m not just baffled but completely perplexed by Arvind Kejriwal’s decision to grant the police permission to prosecute Kanhaiya Kumar for sedition under S...
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At last I can see signs of life in the Congress Party! Having lain inert for months it’s starting to twitch. Unless I’m horribly mistaken, the dormant giant is stir...
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A lot has been written about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on women in the army but I wonder how many people have a clear idea of the full picture? The assumption...
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Frankly, I blame Henry Kissinger. Way back in the 1970s he called Bangladesh “an international basket-case”. At the time, no doubt, it was. Television images of the...
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Unlike the British we do not write memoirs. Which is perhaps why Montek Ahluwalia begins his book ‘Backstage: The story behind India’s high growth years’ with the...
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