The abiding memory of my teenage years is reading Agatha Christie. On holiday from school, I’d spend hot summer afternoons stretched out on a sofa under a furiously w...
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It’s the strangest of paradoxes that Amarjit Singh Dulat’s book ‘The Chief Minister and The Spy’ should have so deeply offended Farooq Abdullah. Described in th...
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Should Doon School, which considers itself India’s premier boys’ boarding school, become co-educational? To be honest, this question has arisen earlier as well. The...
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As the name suggests, Sandhya Suri is a filmmaker of Indian origin. Her film Santosh was Britain’s official entry for the Oscars, it won widespread acclaim at Cannes ...
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Last week the Times of India broke the story about large sums of unaccounted cash found in Justice Yashwant Varma’s residence. Earlier, there was the case of Justice ...
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I guess it was to be expected. The closer we come to conducting a census the spectre of delimitation was bound to start haunting us. And though the Modi government is d...
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It’s not every day that an Army Chief writes a novel. In fact, it’s only happened once during the 77 years since independence. This is what makes Gen. Manoj Naravan...
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What makes the apparent rift between Shashi Tharoor and the Congress leadership interesting is what it reveals about both sides. They’re very different to each other ...
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When I was young the Donald I associated with America was the duck. These days it’s Trump. That makes me wonder which of the two is more representative of this powerf...
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I’ve said it before – and I’ll say it again – English is a delightful language. You have words that are spelt similarly but pronounced differently. As in this s...
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