I’m often told I interrupt too much. That seems to irritate several viewers of my interviews. “Let me hear what your guest has to say before you butt in”, is the ...
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I’m not the sort of person who usually responds to the often foolish suggestions floated by those in authority over us purportedly for our good. I prefer to ignore th...
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We all know Ratan Tata the industrialist. He was in a class of his own. But what was he like as a person? What sort of childhood did he have? Were there women he loved ...
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William Dalrymple’s latest book should bring cheer to his Indian readers. It establishes what we’ve always believed is the case. But it’s best to hear it from him...
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The News that HARDtalk on the BBC, one of my favourite programmes, is to be scrapped in March has disappointed, dismayed and, yes, depressed me. I can’t help feel it�...
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Ratan Tata deserved the Bharat Ratna. It should have been given to him in his lifetime. Now that he is dead will it be conferred posthumously?

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For Harold Macmillan a week was a long time in politics. For the Israelis the one year the Israel-Hamas war has lasted must feel like an age. In that time their world h...
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I must have been 16 but my memory is as clear as if it happened yesterday.  I had come down for the weekend from Stowe and we were watching television.  Kiran was smo...
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“I’m besotted with words; it’s fair to say that I love them.” Doesn’t that confession sum-up Shashi Tharoor? It certainly captures the image we have of him an...
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I can’t recall when I first met Sitaram Yechury. It was probably shortly after I returned to India in 1990. But what I’ll never forget is my first big interview wit...
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