Rogues can be dressed as priests
To call Franco Mulakkal India’s Rasputin would be unfair to Rasputin.
06 Feb 2022
Reading? Subhas Bose is dead, isn’t he?
Perhaps the best way to understand the difference between yesterday’s India and today’s India is by looking at the way reading habits have changed.
30 Jan 2022
In Uttar Pradesh, BJP’s leaders know only love
Yogi Adityanath, the politician dressed in saffron, is well known for his ambition to replace Narendra Modi as the BJP’s prime ministerial nominee.
23 Jan 2022
A welcome book of assertive history
The thinkers included in this anthology are among this century’s most irrepressible provocateurs.
16 Jan 2022
Listen to Electron and his brothers
The reality is that a good deal of surface appearances has a determining effect on our opinions and our lives.
09 Jan 2022
How to eat your cake and have it too
In developed countries, this does not happen because things other than politics, such as sports and arts, play dominant roles in everyday lives.
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Goodbye 2021, but welcome to what?
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30 Dec 2021
The tragedy that was Air India
It’s important that I share with the public what I experienced flying with Air India (AI) this time.
19 Dec 2021
Too many VIP deaths, something amiss?
Security experts have practices and conventions based on what they have learned from experience.
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Hail to the glories of corruption
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05 Dec 2021
The reach of intolerant minds
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28 Nov 2021
When rowdies become presidents
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The politics of inverted binoculars
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Weep for the women in Afghanistan
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