Aurangzeb: A Life of Tolerance

I am no scholar of history but I know my Indian history fairly well. Given the currently prevailing atmosphere of intolerance in India, this would be a good time to set the record straight by remembering and recalling More...

Award Returnees Dislike Indian Voters

The swelling outpouring of angst about alleged calamities being visited by Narendra Modi on India are unlikely to be coordinated, but clearly each one is inciting others. This is a bemusing puzzle. The fact of the More...

Award Wapasi Shame: Know the Literary Mafias

What is the common between dismissed IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, self-styled activist Teesta Setalvad and the writers who have relinquished Sahitya Akademi Awards or quit the Akademi? They all indulged in a well-orchestrated More...

Sad Sardesai, Happy India

I’m writing this in response to Rajdeep Sardesai’s lament that begins with the famous Javed Akhtar song from Silsila…Yeh kahan aa gaye hum…in terms of what a vitriolic atmosphere we have gotten ourselves More...