“Why are journalists suddenly so critical of the Prime Minister?” It was, admittedly, a question at a dinner party but it was also a pointed inquiry. “These days everyone&rsq...
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At first Arjun Singh seemed a bit of an enigma. He was taciturn and not given to small talk. When he did speak it was almost epigrammatic. His sentences were short but always substantive. They ...
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Have you noticed how Indian politicians can sometimes say the strangest things? We’ve had a couple of examples recently and they’re as perplexing as they are wryly funny.  And what they u...
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I hope you’ll forgive a little self-indulgence this morning but Mummy celebrated her 94th birthday yesterday and its not every day that the Mater reaches such a venerable age. What makes...
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I don’t know about you but I’ve woken up in a very bad mood. I’m both irritated and depressed. What’s worse is that I can’t see any hope of improvement over the next five weeks. If a...
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Have you noticed how spectrum scams have suddenly begun proliferating? This week alone we’ve discovered two new ones. It seems, like amoeba, they are multiplying. The picture that emerges is...
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If you’ve spent the last few weeks riveted to the television, mesmerized as Tunisia tumbled into chaos and then, wonderstruck, as the popular uprising in Egypt swells into a revolution, perh...
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India never ceases to both fascinate and amaze me. Thirty five percent of the population may be illiterate and a sizeable section of the remainder still struggle to read and yet tens of thousa...
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You might feel Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary next sunday would be a more suitable date for this column but my fear is that, for the same reason, it might prove more provocative or, at l...
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What is happening to Pakistan? That’s not just a rhetorical question. It’s also one many Pakistanis are asking themselves. An email from a friend expresses the shock, horror and in...
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