Do you remember Udayan Mukherjee? Actually, it would be astonishing if you don’t. Not so long ago he was the pride of CNBC and, arguably, India’s foremost business ...
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I know it’s a provocative question but I believe it’s one that needs to be asked: are we a gauche and graceless people? Do we have no idea of what should be spoken ...
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You won’t find the word in the Oxford dictionary but it’s there in Wikipedia. Paraprosdokians is defined as a figure of speech in which the second half of a phrase ...
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It’s clear what India thinks of Mahatma Gandhi. Officially, we revere him. It’s another matter we honour his memory more in the breach than in the observance. But w...
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Was the Prime Minister’s visit to USA and the UN an “outstanding” success or has Kashmir been internationalized to India’s disadvantage? It’s an intriguing qu...
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Look out for the BBC’s three-part serial ‘Rise of the Nazis’. It concluded last friday in London and, no doubt, BBC World will bring it to us soon. It reveals how...
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“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”, John Maynard Keynes is, perhaps apocryphally, reported to have once asked. This is a question I wou...
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These days we hear a lot about what happened to Kashmiri pandits in 1990. It’s often described as ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’. For some, it’s justific...
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I wonder if you’re aware that the basis on which the National Register of Citizens has been created in Assam is in deliberate and blatant defiance of the law of this ...
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Perhaps because attention has sharply focussed on Rahul Gandhi’s resignation and the two month long reluctance of the Congress party to accept he has truly made up hi...
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