The writer taught in the department of English, Delhi University.
May 21, 2017 00:00 IST
The evolution of our country's identity from the unifying mother of yore to the strict father of contemporary nationalist times.
February 20, 2017 00:02 IST
But Trump’s America is a latecomer. It has much to learn from Vishwaguru India.
January 04, 2017 00:15 IST
The farce of TV “debates” shows us in the grip of matched opposites, good versus evil, black versus white. There is little civilised discourse. No question is open. This is the age of the slogan — and outright violence.
October 21, 2016 00:05 IST
There are great advantages of redefining military action as surgery — for one, it mobilises the rhetoric of health.
May 02, 2016 00:01 IST
‘Gurugram’ is the symptom of a disease which generates a striving to return to some previous perfection.
February 16, 2016 00:24 IST
The alarming, exponential reach of the ‘anti-national’ can find you out in the most unexpected places.
August 01, 2015 00:00 IST
A book on the fabled Allahabad University takes shelter in the romantic distortions of nostalgia when faced with the present.
June 20, 2015 00:00 IST
The officially declared desire to go for the record must itself be a kind of record.
May 15, 2015 00:01 IST
Salman Khan had to be sacrificed so that we can rest easy about the impersonal majesty of the law.
March 27, 2010 22:31 IST
Chinua Achebe looks at the everyday life of colonialism with remarkable good humour....
June 24, 2002 00:00 IST
Soon a mere tide of political collusion will carry A.P.J. Abdul Kalam into the presidential palace — and the media will, no doubt, disc...
