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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 turning backSubscriber Only
September 23, 2012 01:50 IST
Weather forecasting was very primitive till after the Second World War.
Sun, Sep 23, 2012The fightbackSubscriber Only
September 16, 2012 01:37 IST
A week is a long time in politics as Harold Wilson famously said.
Sun, Sep 16, 2012All changeSubscriber Only
September 09, 2012 01:24 IST
Is the Indian political scene changing fundamentally or is this merely a blip due to the difficulties of UPA-II?
Sun, Sep 09, 2012A nation of minoritiesSubscriber Only
September 02, 2012 02:45 IST
Parliament fiddles while the nation burns. Assam is still aflame
Sun, Sep 02, 2012Collusive ConflictSubscriber Only
August 26, 2012 02:06 IST
Prime Ministers do not resign just because the Opposition demands so.
Sun, Aug 26, 2012Consensus on GrowthSubscriber Only
August 19, 2012 03:35 IST
At the start of the 21st century,it looked like this would be Indias century.
Sun, Aug 19, 2012Not so fastSubscriber Only
August 12, 2012 03:11 IST
No one else will use the fast unto death weapon in Indian politics after the Team Anna debacle.
Sun, Aug 12, 2012Power shocksSubscriber Only
August 05, 2012 02:47 IST
In the bad old days of Stalinism,you were not allowed to have a thought.
Sun, Aug 05, 2012Being thirteenSubscriber Only
July 29, 2012 03:25 IST
Dear Rashtrapati Thirteen,George Bush Senior calls his son forty-three and he in turn calls his father forty-one.
Sun, Jul 29, 2012Final reckoningsSubscriber Only
July 22, 2012 00:06 IST
I never thought I would ever feel sad for Mamata Banerjees plight.
Sun, Jul 22, 2012Why is India corrupt?Subscriber Only
July 15, 2012 00:47 IST
No one questions the prevalence of corruption in India. The politicians of the two principal parties may blame each other but the fact of corruption is inescapable
Sun, Jul 15, 2012Peer pressuredSubscriber Only
July 12, 2012 00:23 IST
House of Lords reform bill is stalled for now. Sometimes,change can take a century
Thu, Jul 12, 2012Succession RitesSubscriber Only
July 08, 2012 00:01 IST
When news came that John Kennedy had been shot,I was in my office in University of California at Berkeley.
Sun, Jul 08, 2012Hind,Hindi,Hindu,HindutvaSubscriber Only
July 01, 2012 00:11 IST
As children in the 1940s,we used to sing,Hindi hai hum chalis karod
Sun, Jul 01, 2012Kakas IndiaSubscriber Only
June 28, 2012 02:38 IST
Rajesh Khanna reminds us of gentler times,when we were all younger and in love
Thu, Jun 28, 2012The race for 2014Subscriber Only
June 24, 2012 03:20 IST
In the U.S.,the campaign for presidency starts the day after the inauguration of a new president.
Sun, Jun 24, 2012Beware of alliesSubscriber Only
June 17, 2012 03:30 IST
The most recent episode of Kaun Banega Rashtrapati reminded me of the old classic comedy Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi.
Sun, Jun 17, 2012Charisma needs no costumesSubscriber Only
June 10, 2012 03:46 IST
The Labour Party I joined in 1971 always had a problem with the royalty
Sun, Jun 10, 2012A movement derailedSubscriber Only
June 03, 2012 02:23 IST
Jayaprakash Narayan was a rare hero. His ideological trajectory took him from Marxism and socialism to Gandhism
Sun, Jun 03, 2012The Mulayam gambitSubscriber Only
May 27, 2012 03:27 IST
This advice can also be extended to listening to Pranab Mukhejee.
Sun, May 27, 2012Is survival a strategy?Subscriber Only
May 20, 2012 02:43 IST
Talleyrand. The great French diplomat was asked as to what he did during the French Revolution.
Sun, May 20, 2012Young at SixtySubscriber Only
May 13, 2012 03:11 IST
The idea that India would be a parliamentary democracy and that it would last as long as sixty years
Sun, May 13, 2012Respectfully YoursSubscriber Only
May 06, 2012 02:17 IST
The Speaker xxx like Muttley the dog had been foiled. Suppose now that the xxx had been Meira Kumar,the Lok Sabha Speaker.
Sun, May 06, 2012Kaun Banega RashtrapatiSubscriber Only
April 29, 2012 02:19 IST
The founding fathers of the American Republic distrusted the people.
Sun, Apr 29, 2012The benefit of doubtSubscriber Only
April 22, 2012 02:38 IST
Osama bin Laden said explicitly that the only way to end his jihad against the US was for them to adopt Islam.
Sun, Apr 22, 2012Journalism of Courage
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