Are television discussions guilty of ”controversy-manufacturing … (where) a sentence in a complex arguement has been picked up to be thrashed ou...
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The truth is we’ve become an intolerant people. When we don’t like a film we stop its screening. When we disapprove of a book we ban it. When we disagree wit...
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Which is correct: whisky or whiskey? Actually, it depends upon what you’re talking about. Whisky comes from Scotland. When it’s made anywhere else, be it nearby I...
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The beheading of an Indian soldier on the LoC and the mutilation of another were undoubtedly unacceptable and unpardonable. This was barbaric behaviour. The anger and revulsion it’s provoked is u...
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It may sound flippant but, actually, it’s the truth – you’d be hard pressed to think of more silly and objectionable things to say about rape than those ex...
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In this, the first Sunday Sentiments of 2013, I’m going to write about the three best books I recommend you read. Out of the many I’ve started– an...
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Although he was unaware of it, my first moment of what I think of as fame – if you’ll permit a little blowing of the old trumpet! – was because of Pandit R...
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Let me suggest a sobering thought but also a perturbing one.

Last week’s protests on the streets of Delhi against the despicable gang rape of a young 23 year old girl were, no doubt,...
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Sometimes the media doesn’t think before it asks questions. That was the case, last week when it debated: ‘Are the Australian radio jockeys to blame for the ...
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If my memory is correct, I first met Inder Gujral at a New Year’s eve party given by my cousins Raj and Romesh Thapar. On holiday from Cambridge, I was skulkin...
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