Flabbergasted by incompetence
Numerous 21-day spells have come and gone, yet the Modi brigade is unaware of the credibility gap it has created.
20 Jun 2021
Cremations don’t matter when PM-cares
Two contrasting scenes of shame hit India last week. One was people dying in Ahmedabad in numbers the crematoriums could not handle.
18 Apr 2021
All set for the next 20 years
Honesty being the best policy, I need to admit that I was with those who considered the BJP divisive and Amit Shah untrustworthy. So the latter’s stunning victory stunned me.
26 May 2019
Trust level down, cash is king
Today’s EC has chosen to be powerless for its own reasons. Even after the Supreme Court shamed it into using at least some of its powers, the EC has let transgressions go unnoticed, writes TJS George.
21 Apr 2019
Wise philosophers, fanatic kings
The time gap between voting day and results day is one of the afflictions of democracy.
13 May 2018
Hitler, Nehru and a worthless Bose
When those who don’t have it in them think they have it in them, it’s sad. Chandra Kumar Bose was a qualified management expert who did well in the Tatas for many years.
29 Apr 2018
Promoting bad governance is bad
So it’s the mixture as before—Shri Arun Jaitley is wise, ministers of southern states are dumb.
15 Apr 2018
Ram Bhakti, Like news, goes fake
We haven’t had a more turbulent Ram Navami in recent memory.
08 Apr 2018
How not to facelift culture
Indian literature is the richer for the election of Chandrasekhara Kambar as President of the Sahitya Akademi.
18 Feb 2018
Unity, yes. but who will be the PM?
Now that the budget has assured Devaloka by 2019, we can return to more mundane things: How the Opposition parties can unite against the BJP.
04 Feb 2018
How ego politics help the enemy
Small minds can create big dislocations in a democracy. When Prakash Karat says that the CPM's purity cannot be diluted by association with bourgeois parties, when Sharad Pawar fields 72 candidates
17 Dec 2017
Abdul Karim Telgi, Harshad Mehta were geniuses of crime; but a philosophy evolved: ‘money is very bad, sir’
Abdul Karim Telgi’s passing should remind us that only in India are criminals so creative.
05 Nov 2017
Mass appeal is easy for filmstars, but respect is tough. Amitabh Bachchan earned it, after many setbacks
Filmstars seldom celebrate their birthdays. Perhaps they do not want to know that they are getting older by the year. Amitabh Bachchan’s birthday (October 11, 1942) was an exception.
22 Oct 2017
In a world of bullies, tiny Kim Jong-Un now equals mighty Donald Trump; What if one makes a small miscalculation? It's scary
We now have a clear picture of the conundrum into which these unpredictable half-mad gentlemen have led the world.
23 Sep 2017
How ‘Scoundrel christ’ betrayed his twin brother Jesus; A laboured re-telling that fails to impress
You are sure to hit the bestseller list if you write a book with the title The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
17 Sep 2017
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