India, May 19 -- "I'm strict and I may be stern but I'm always fair and transparent. You get what you see. There are no sides to me." This was how TN Seshan, arguably the Chief Election Commissioner w... Read More
India, May 18 -- "I'm strict and I may be stern but I'm always fair and transparent. You get what you see. There are no sides to me." This was how TN Seshan, arguably the Chief Election Commissioner w... Read More
India, May 11 -- It's no secret that English is not a phonetic language. How you spell a word has little connection with how you pronounce it. That's why a spelling test can be formidable. But I had n... Read More
India, May 4 -- I was brought up in an age when it was assumed prime ministers would do the right and honourable thing. And if the Prime Minister said it, it was bound to be correct. Terminological in... Read More
India, April 28 -- Unlike his earlier masterpieces, in his latest book Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, on the terrible attack that almost killed him, Salman Rushdie speaks directly to th... Read More
India, April 27 -- Unlike his earlier masterpieces, in his latest book Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, on the terrible attack that almost killed him, Salman Rushdie speaks directly to th... Read More
India, April 20 -- Perhaps because it's election time I've received a collection of aphorisms and quotations pertinently drawing my attention to a range of thoughts and concerns swirling around us. Th... Read More
India, April 13 -- Normally I would not write about political manifestos. Most of the time neither the party nor the voter takes them seriously. But there's a clause in the Congress's manifesto concer... Read More
India, April 6 -- I guess it's not uncommon that when someone you are close to dies you're flooded with memories of the association with them. Incidents, long forgotten, return with an immediacy and c... Read More
India, March 30 -- Eighty years after it ended, most people believe there's very little we don't know about World War II. Mukund Padmanabhan has just proved that wrong. Paradoxically, he's written a b... Read More