We don’t really have an autumn in Delhi. Our summer merges into winter with only a brief transition heralded by the passage of Diwali. This means Keats’s Ode to Aut...
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We don’t normally think of foreign secretaries as authors of detective fiction. But the day may not be far when Krishnan Srinivasan will be better known as the creato...
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I was asked an interesting question last week: are Indians racist? It was prompted by a report in the Times of India which reads: “A 27-year-old flight attendant from...
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M. F. Husain is undoubtedly India’s best known and perhaps most highly regarded modern artist.  As this newspaper put it last week, he is “arguably the most invent...
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Did you know Arundhati Roy has a first name which she’s dropped? She writes in her new book that when she was 18 “I dropped my first name, Susanna. Starting then, I...
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Is it no longer acceptable for an honest upstanding Indian to feel at home in Pakistan? After all, tens of millions of us were born in provinces that today comprise Pak...
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Unless you’re an avid reader of British news you won’t know who Peter Mandelson is. He’s the only politician I know who has on three separate occasions held high ...
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Just as the US ambassador-designate Sergio Gor admitted to “minor hiccups” in India-US ties and assured that the two countries are “not that far apart right now o...
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I’ve decided to write about an odd subject this Sunday. It’s not political but it is topical and it’s certainly important. More than anything else it fascinates m...
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It’s time to address a question that’s been staring us in the face. Is President Trump being vindictive towards India? Has he got it in for our country? Because if ...
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