The kirana store merchant is the stereotype adulterator in popular Indian culture. He adds metanil yellow to turmeric, powdered brick to chilli, stones to rice, and so on. His villainy, however, is ...
Three elections in three countries in a week, and each was a decisive exercise of popular choice that should make every democrat happy. But Pakistan deserves the loudest applause. For both Malaysia ...
This is the worst of times; it is also the best of times. The government seems to be in indefinite freefall and the economy is now in synch with it. As the construction sector starts to implode, the ...
The sum of two funerals
Transformative is a word that invites caution but the eulogies for leaders, regional, national and international, tend to gush in a flaccid hyperbole of stereotypical prose ...
On March 19, MLAs in the Maharashtra Assembly went into the visitors’ gallery and assaulted Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Suryawanshi. He needed treatment in hospital for his injuries. The ...
In 1917, a lawyer named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi drove the Indian national movement out of the parlours and debating chambers of the polite classes and into the homes of ordinary people through a ...
AgustaWestland is the latest name to join a growing list of infamy since the UPA government began its second term in 2009. Indeed, UPA-2 will in future probably be known as “non-governance in a ...
The dead have ways of talking these days as high technology can persuade the “damned spot” to show itself even in the most unpromising circumstances. A determined investigator can ensure that the ...
It’s been a long time coming but one of the sporting world’s most famous serial rule-breakers has finally confessed his sins to America’s Mother Confessor Oprah Winfrey on her TV show. This is ...
When the DMK’s Azhagiri decried his brother Stalin’s anointment as the next leader, last month, saying the party was not a mutt that a successor could be named just like that, he was bang on ...
