India, Feb. 2 -- I often receive suggestions from my readers about the subjects I should take up in my weekly column in this journal. Some are gently persuasive, some angry, some merely curious. Occas... Read More
India, Jan. 19 -- India speaks endlessly of numbers. We are now the world's fourth-largest economy, soon to be the third, we are told with chest-thumping regularity. But numbers matter only when they ... Read More
India, Jan. 12 -- Kapil Mishra is today the Law Minister of the Delhi government. As a local politician, he knows northeast Delhi well. He also knows what happened there in 2000, when communal violenc... Read More
India, Jan. 5 -- I have had a few occasions to visit the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, once at the invitation of the management to deliver the Christmas message. Those visits left a deep impr... Read More
India, Dec. 29 -- For the first time in my life, I received several messages wishing me a safe Christmas. Not happy. Not merry. Safe. For seven decades, Christmas greetings in my life have come wrappe... Read More
India, Dec. 22 -- Mahatma Gandhi was never a comfortable figure for the Narendra Modi-led government. His name is invoked, his spectacles are displayed, his statues are garlanded across continents, bu... Read More
India, Dec. 8 -- The late Prof MP Manmadhan (1915-1994) belonged to that rare tribe of public intellectuals Kerala once produced in abundance-men who combined scholarship with activism, conviction wit... Read More
India, Dec. 1 -- I have always considered myself a temple-goer. That description may seem inadequate, for my journeys have taken me from the southern tip of the subcontinent to the Himalayan foothills... Read More
India, Nov. 24 -- It came as a surprise-though perhaps it should not have-that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited to deliver the sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture, as if the people of India had been ... Read More
India, Nov. 17 -- Man is, perhaps, the only animal that can imagine. This is our greatest gift and, at times, our most profound curse. There are no limitations to the worlds we can conjure within the ... Read More