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Meghnad Desai
Meghnad Desai loves to cook, watch and write about old Bollywood movies and shuttles between London, Delhi and Goa. He pursues controversies on economics, history and anything else which catches his attention. He is also a British parliamentarian sitting in the House of Lords. He has written over 25 books, over 200 articles in learned journals and hundreds of newspaper columns in UK and India.
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No wave,just a tsunamiSubscriber Only
December 15, 2013 05:48 IST
Arvind Kejriwal in his moment of triumph ought to discount his victory.
Sun, Dec 15, 2013Separate and unequalSubscriber Only
December 08, 2013 23:31 IST
Kashmir has been treated like a colony,a separate and unequal part of the Union ever since.
Sun, Dec 08, 2013A grown-up democracySubscriber Only
December 01, 2013 04:26 IST
India needs a much more robust culture where leaders are exposed to the peoples criticisms rather than treated like the old rajas.
Sun, Dec 01, 2013Women under siegeSubscriber Only
November 24, 2013 01:13 IST
The Tarun Tejpal case,which has just exploded,is sad and shocking.
Sun, Nov 24, 2013Is there a future for India?Subscriber Only
November 17, 2013 00:01 IST
Politics,of course,is completely out of bounds for anyone who has only merit.
Sun, Nov 17, 2013Mars and modern IndiaSubscriber Only
November 10, 2013 04:18 IST
The Congress was an instrument that Gandhi adapted to mass struggle,but under his dictatorial rule.
Sun, Nov 10, 2013Out of my mind: Legacy WarsSubscriber Only
November 03, 2013 02:33 IST
The Congress had promised a coalition with the Muslim League in UP after the 1937 elections.
Sun, Nov 03, 2013Divide and uniteSubscriber Only
October 27, 2013 04:06 IST
Rahul Gandhi recently articulated his primal fear a premature violent death by assassination.
Sun, Oct 27, 2013The Muslim questionSubscriber Only
October 20, 2013 04:24 IST
Following the tragedy of Partition,Muslims in India have been treated as a special species.
Sun, Oct 20, 2013The Telangana blunderSubscriber Only
October 13, 2013 00:50 IST
It has been three years since P Chidambaram confided somewhat loudly that the UPA was going to grant Telangana statehood.
Sun, Oct 13, 2013Political riotsSubscriber Only
October 06, 2013 00:14 IST
Fast forward 38 years and we have a politically engineered riot.
Sun, Oct 06, 2013Game changerSubscriber Only
September 29, 2013 03:49 IST
Politics does sometimes change abruptly,hitting a cusp when suddenly new possibilities open up which were not there the day before.
Sun, Sep 29, 2013The idea of IndiaSubscriber Only
September 22, 2013 00:46 IST
This idea of a secular,democratic,left-of-centre polity was very much the brainchild of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Sun, Sep 22, 2013Old men in a hurrySubscriber Only
September 15, 2013 00:15 IST
The run-up to the 2014 elections has everyone in a tearing hurry to rush to decisions that may prove to be ill-judged.
Sun, Sep 15, 2013The next world warSubscriber Only
September 08, 2013 02:56 IST
The war in Syria has been going on for two years,a civil war with proxy participation from outsiders.
Sun, Sep 08, 2013The crisisSubscriber Only
September 01, 2013 02:49 IST
The market has seen that the fundamental problem of the Indian economy is politics.
Sun, Sep 01, 2013Secular socialist stagnationSubscriber Only
August 25, 2013 03:19 IST
A spectre is haunting the Congress. It is the spectre of Narendra Modi.
Sun, Aug 25, 2013The Auld EnemySubscriber Only
August 18, 2013 05:42 IST
It is a uniquely Indian dish. Border troubles across the LoC and communal riots in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sun, Aug 18, 2013A state of mindSubscriber Only
August 11, 2013 05:35 IST
Nothing is true until it is officially denied as Bismarck said
Sun, Aug 11, 2013What now?Subscriber Only
August 04, 2013 01:23 IST
Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. His role in the emancipation of slaves made black Americans vote Republican without fail for 60 years
Sun, Aug 04, 2013The Hindu rate of backwardnessSubscriber Only
July 28, 2013 05:28 IST
In the 1959 film Anari,there is a scene where the simpleton-hero played by Raj Kapoor is working in a restaurant kitchen.
Sun, Jul 28, 2013Why are there riots in India?Subscriber Only
July 21, 2013 03:58 IST
There was a presentation of a new book on the Partition of Punjab last week in one of the committee rooms at the House of Lords
Sun, Jul 21, 2013A bad guy,an old friendSubscriber Only
July 16, 2013 02:54 IST
A villain by accident,Pran built a career that outlasted the heroes of three generations
Tue, Jul 16, 2013Collective incompetence and negligenceSubscriber Only
July 14, 2013 03:07 IST
This is symptomatic of the nation. There are laws against corruption but somehow,they do not check it. There are laws against harassment,rape,molestation which were there even before the Delhi gangrape. Yet,no one gets punished.
Sun, Jul 14, 2013Crisis of the Muslim worldSubscriber Only
July 07, 2013 04:55 IST
There was the unrest in Istanbul against a non-secular government
Sun, Jul 07, 2013Journalism of Courage
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