Were it not so obnoxious, it would have been easy to brush aside poll-time bilge of who is a real Hindu; what ‘gotra‘ Rahul Gandhi is; whether Congress is becoming …
Indira Gandhi is famously said to have labelled journalists as “glorified stenographers”. In Lutyens Delhi, anchors and presenters of brain-dead TV news channels are working hard to remove even the …
Fact 1: The Indian National Congress is 132 years old. It has been in power for much of India’s post-independent history. Fact 2: The Indian National Congress is not short of …
Congress president Rahul Gandhi‘s gesture on Christmas of responding to a tweet and wishing a 107-year-old in Bangalore, and then following it up with a phone call, fell into the …
Five days after the Bharatiya Janata Kazhagam (Bha-Ja-Ka as Bha-Ja-Pa is known in Tamil Nadu) was left unbeaten on 99 in its quest for “Mission 150” in Gujarat, a report …
At 90, Nayantara Sahgal remains a shining light on India’s intellectual firmament: clear, cogent, strong, resolute and fiercely independent. In 2014, Sahgal—Vijayalakshmi Pandit‘s daughter and Jawaharlal Nehru‘s niece—returned the Sahitya Akademi award …
The hearse that brought the mortal remains of Gauri Lankesh to the ‘Veerashaiva Rudrabhoomi’ at the T.R. Mill compound in Chamarajpet in Bangalore last Wednesday, bore a small poster with her …
Gauri Lankesh didn’t call too often. But when she did, it would be late in the night and it would be a very long one. Usually about the various wars …
The fragility of India’s media under the control freaks of the modern BJP has attracted critical scrutiny following its surgical strike on NDTV. But it is high time the national …
The laziest way of explaining why many parts of the world—Britain, USA, Russia, Turkey, Japan, Netherlands, et al—are turning inward, protectionist, nationalistic, and embarking on a slippery slope, is to …
Jairam Ramesh, the Chikmagalur-born former Union minister and resident ‘Kautilya‘ in the Congress, has an excellent piece in The Hindu, on people hankering after prizes as Republic Day approaches. To …
Rahul Gandhi‘s interview with Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami has already led to a torrent of scrutiny and criticism, and there will be more tonight as the wise sages in …
When he was first sworn in in 2004 after Sonia Gandhi reportedly heard her “inner voice”, the less-than-charitable view was that Manmohan Singh was merely warming the prime ministerial chair …
Like him or loathe him, there is no ignoring U.R. Anantha Murthy. As an academic, as a writer and as a public intellectual, URA has towered over the political, social …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: Jagadish Shettar, who has been catapulted to the position of chief minister-designate in Karnataka, has been nothing but a political pawn in the game …
Media freedom in India id est Bharat has never been a more scarce commodity than in the year of the lord 2012. The fourth estate is under concerted attack from …
If you listen closely to the breeze blowing through the capital’s vineyards, the year of the lord two-thousand twelve is the year when a not-so-young man will become the “fifth …
GAGAN KRISHNADAS writes from Bangalore: The centre for public policy at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B), recently organised a conference titled “Strengthening Institutions, Enhancing Governance”. It provided an …
D.P. SATISH writes from New Delhi: Even though Sarekoppa Bangarappa spent almost 15 years in the national capital New Delhi as a four-time MP—he entered the Lok Sabha on a …
Rajiv Gandhi‘s 2011 birth anniversary: 108 ads across 48 pages in 12 newspapers surveyed by churumuri. Indira Gandhi‘s 2011 birth anniversary: 64 ads across 32 pages in the same 12 …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: For all the lip service it pays “dalits and the downtrodden”, for all the tokenism of a Dalit as speaker of Lok Sabha, and …
The ultimate irony of the former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad’s statement in New Delhi last Friday—that India would have clocked much higher rates of growth than China had it …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: For the final anniversary of the year of India’s “Family No. 1”—the birth anniversary of the nation’s first woman prime minister Indira Gandhi—there are …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: There are 58 government advertisements amounting to 26¼ pages in 12 English newspapers today to mark the birth anniversary of India’s first prime minister …
“India’s most independent, principled and irreverent editor” Vinod Mehta has just published a memoir. Titled Lucknow Boy, the editor-in-chief of the Outlook* group of magazines, recaptures his four-decade journalistic journey via Debonair, The Sunday Observer, …
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