Today is no ordinary Republic Day. 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of our constitution. In 1950 many questioned how long it would last. So to have completed the biblica...
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I’m astounded by the government’s recent arguements in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). Not only is their logic factually flawed but it’s also de...
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I was 13 when ‘In the year 2525’ was top of the pops. It was 1969. At the time 2525 felt light years away. The lyrics ‘if man is still alive, if woman can survive...
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“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind”, Einstein is once supposed to have asked, “of what, then, is a messy desk?”  I’m afraid this question has...
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As the year draws to a close there’s something I want to share with you. I’m confident many of you will agree.

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I wonder if the government really understands why the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has provoked so much anger? It’s because how a country defines its citizens also...
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I spent last week doing something I’ve rarely done before: thinking about our MPs and MLAs. And you can’t have missed what prompted this – their outrageous commen...
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Wednesday will be Inder Kumar Gujral’s 100th birthday but, nearly 22 years after he stopped being prime minister, I wonder how many of you remember him? He was small ...
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Supreme Court judgements should be intelligible and convincing. Those are two qualities I would stress above any other. In their absence judgements could amount to soph...
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Let me start with an admission. I’m not an economist and what I know of the economy has been culled from the papers or by listening to economists on television. So it...
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