New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- On July 31, in Gujarat for Sardar Patel's birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that "foreign backed" forces were conspiring to destabilise India. He wondered who w... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- The Nobel Prize in Medicine was given to the developers of optogenetics, which studies specific brain cells, neurons, with light for precise investigation of brain circuits in me... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- Indian children are the best behaved in the world. When they protest, they are punched, kicked, and molested by the police, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's orders (what a tough... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The success of Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi's rally on October 12, 2026, gathering 2.5 lakh marchers against electoral malpractices, should not blind us to the fact that Kin... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- This summer abroad, I read books old and new, including the mammoth Middlemarch by George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans), which Martin Amis called the best English novel (in a 1967 l... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- For all the handwringing over AI's threat to humanity, here's a thought experiment. Given the authoritarian way Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has run the constitutio... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Some in BRICS unofficially suspect Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being a Trojan horse. They believe that US President Donald Trump has excessive sway over Modi, which may or m... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- On 6 September, a five-storey building in Delhi's Satya Niketan being used as a paying-guest facility collapsed, killing seven people, most of them students. The building was un... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of the German Third Reich (1933-1945), never openly wept, though he was reportedly tearful on occasion. Music moved him, particularly Richard Wagner's (... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- Your columnist is looking forward to Sonia Gandhi's 544-page memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, which will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in the US two months from now. It wa... Read More