False equivalence to hide self loathing by Ram Guha

I had a colleague once who hailed from a small village and whose father was an average farmer. The father worked hard to put his son through school and good engineering college. The son got a good job and like many More...

Practice What You Preach

When I was in the third standard, we were taught a story from the Mahabharata. All Kaurava and Pandava brothers are taking lessons and are asked to memorize them. All the 105 boys memorized their lessons well except More...

The Right Turns of Shashi Tharoor

YB Chavan was one of the old guards of Congress who held many ministry portfolios. A seasoned politician and one who was respected across the polity of his times, he was one of the most successful ministers of the More...

Chetan Bhagat as a Symbol of Deracination

I have never read any book by Chetan Bhagat. When a friend asked me what I think of him, my response was factual – that I don’t think of him.  It does not mean I dislike him or his books, it is just that he More...

Congress now wants to be a Hindu party

Some of the news items related to the Congress and its new-found love for Hindus remind me of a story I once heard from my Aunt, a nice story about Akbar and Birbal. Emperor Akbar was once enjoying the fragrance More...