Oh, the intolerance! Where’s the evacuation flotilla?

Once they used to say, “, Look! What wonderful things the Mughals and the British have done for us!” Not now. Now they ask, “What will the Saffron hordes do to us?” In the “us”, they presume to speak More...

India’s dire contemporary challenges

It seems difficult for observers to abstract from the immediate hurly burly of daily political life and the fascination it evokes to focus on complex long-term processes of historic significance that occur periodically More...

Nexus in Lutyens: Meet the Forces that Conspire Against India

Why are liberals, leftists and most mainstream journalists arrayed against progressive Indians? Why are these groups so out of sync with the mood of the people? How could they rush to declare demonetisation a failure, 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...