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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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Why Delhi CM should be in charge of policeSubscriber Only
March 01, 2020 04:05 IST
One thing is clear. Delhi cannot go on having a dual government. Make it a state so the Chief Minister can take charge of security. The Central government is too remote.
Sun, Mar 01, 2020
Donald Trump put on a good show for PM Narendra ModiSubscriber Only
February 26, 2020 04:00 IST
If India is to be one of the richest nations, it has to fashion trade deals. Modi may yet be the prime minister who liberates the Indian economy from its old shackles of protectionism and makes it as large and nearly as prosperous as the US economy. He can if he uses his friend Donald Trump well.
Wed, Feb 26, 2020
Meghnad Desai writes: India doesn’t need a single story of nationhoodSubscriber Only
February 23, 2020 01:20 IST
India is a civilisation. It does not need a single story of its Nationhood. India is large enough to accommodate many stories of Nationhood. Indeed each linguistic region has its own story of Nationhood. That is its strength. The task is to weave these multiple regional stories into a rich garland that is India.
Sun, Feb 23, 2020
Meghnad Desai writes: Why Kejriwal win is a game changerSubscriber Only
February 16, 2020 02:22 IST
Arvind Kejriwal ran an astute campaign for Delhi elections which did not allow the BJP to distract voters from the solid achievements of the Aam Aadmi Party in delivering public services. He did not fight PM Narendra Modi on the CAA, and treated it as irrelevant for Delhi polls.
Sun, Feb 16, 2020
Government needs to talk to protestersSubscriber Only
February 09, 2020 04:02 IST
Lives would be lost needlessly to prove the point that the government is within its power to restrain those breaking the law. It never works, protests will continue.
Sun, Feb 09, 2020
Rhetoric over CAA bound to lose middle of the road votersSubscriber Only
February 02, 2020 04:30 IST
One can only guess that the ideologues of the BJP are not interested in winning Delhi but in cementing the core Hindu vote and then similarly across India to launch the Hindu Rashtra. Will it work?
Sun, Feb 02, 2020
Why has the 21st century become so blatantly anti-Muslim?Subscriber Only
January 26, 2020 01:29 IST
US President Donald Trump is hostile to Muslims worldwide and has just declared his displeasure against Iran. We could, though not very likely, yet end up with a world war in the second fifth of this century.
Sun, Jan 26, 2020
Centre can enforce its word on CAASubscriber Only
January 19, 2020 01:30 IST
The opposition parties have been caught flat-footed. It was students who led the protest. Even the recent meeting convened by Sonia Gandhi showed a divided Opposition, and a strategy based on power of chief ministers to challenge CAA rather than any mass movement.
Sun, Jan 19, 2020
Out of my mind: Is it time for Uddhav to go national?Subscriber Only
January 12, 2020 04:41 IST
Whatever the current fortunes of the BJP and Shiv Sena, it was the Shiv Sena which succeeded politically in launching Hindutva (with a Marathi angle) as a viable political brand. It is this perhaps that Uddhav is now keen to reestablish.
Sun, Jan 12, 2020
Out of my mind: Now is the moment for Sabka VishwasSubscriber Only
January 05, 2020 03:30 IST
On the day he won a second term, Modi reiterated his slogan of Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas. He added Sabka Vishwas. Now is the moment for Sabka Vishwas.
Sun, Jan 05, 2020
Out of my mind: Crack in the hard shell of singly-party majority government?Subscriber Only
December 29, 2019 02:35 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accommodative in his Ramlila Maidan speech last Sunday but since then has begun to hold the demonstrators responsible for police injuries and damage to property.
Sun, Dec 29, 2019
Out of my mind: Govt must clarify, or face chaosSubscriber Only
December 22, 2019 00:16 IST
Indian Muslims are a minority in India. Would the government conflate their religion with their being on a par with Muslim refugees from Bangladesh? Are they likely to be cast as infiltrators because they are Muslims?
Sun, Dec 22, 2019
Myanmar and Suu Kyi have ‘othered’ the Rohingya who have lived there for centuriesSubscriber Only
December 15, 2019 01:54 IST
The astonishing thing is that the case has been brought by Gambia. Not by any neighbouring Asian nation. Not Malaysia nor Indonesia nor Pakistan.
Sun, Dec 15, 2019
Can UK bear more of Brexit debate?Subscriber Only
December 08, 2019 04:12 IST
The Conservative Party has been deeply divided over the Brexit question, but right now Johnson is asking for a large vote ‘to get Brexit done’. He has negotiated a deal and he needs a comfortable majority to get it through the House of Commons.
Thu, Dec 12, 2019
Modi 2.0 and Mumbai’s jugaad politicsSubscriber Only
December 01, 2019 01:19 IST
There is a glaring lack of interest in the fortunes of the economy, which was the central focus in Modi 1.0. Has Modi 2.0 abandoned Sabka Vikas?
Sun, Dec 01, 2019
Out of my mind: Whither the Hindu Rashtra?Subscriber Only
November 24, 2019 04:05 IST
From the proceedings in Maharashtra, there are deeper conclusions to be drawn. If two Hindu nationalist parties cannot agree on a power-sharing coalition because of the Brahmin/non-Brahmin difference, what hope is there for a Hindu Rashtra?
Sun, Nov 24, 2019
Out of My Mind: What would reverberate is for the VHP to say sorry for destruction of Babri MasjidSubscriber Only
November 17, 2019 01:20 IST
The beauty of the present judgment is that it accommodates the realities of power with requirements of legality in a way which bequeaths a legitimacy which is conducive to public peace if not harmony.
Sun, Nov 17, 2019
Out of My Mind | Dilli Chhodo: Time for a new CapitalSubscriber Only
November 10, 2019 04:37 IST
The Republic of India has the most extensive territory, larger than any previous Empire it has seen — Hindu, Afghan, Mughal or British.
Sun, Nov 10, 2019
Out of my mind: Govt’s dozen own goals on KashmirSubscriber Only
November 03, 2019 03:30 IST
The episode involving the European Parliamentarians shows that the government does not believe in its own propaganda that all is well.
Sun, Nov 03, 2019
Recent elections show that Indian democracy is alive and well and kickingSubscriber Only
October 27, 2019 03:05 IST
Certain things are clear. Never take the voters for granted. Voters know not only how to use their vote but also how to lie to pollsters.
Sun, Oct 27, 2019
India and its politicians exist in a goldfish bowl acutely aware of Western gazeSubscriber Only
October 20, 2019 02:06 IST
A recent example of this sensitivity to Western opinion came when the British Labour Party passed a resolution on Kashmir. It was critical of the Modi government.
Sun, Oct 20, 2019
Boris Johnson’s Brexit troubles are not overSubscriber Only
October 19, 2019 01:36 IST
It has been a tense few days and the coming days will be even more so. Boris Johnson has to bring the deal to the House of Commons, persuade Parliament to support it.
Sat, Oct 19, 2019
Have the courage to remove or at least reform the IPCSubscriber Only
October 13, 2019 01:35 IST
English laws were to be used to keep Indians in order. The British rulers never understood their subjects — the mob as they called it. They needed someone to fashion tools for keeping Indians in order.
Sun, Oct 13, 2019
Brexit: The fruits of a partitionSubscriber Only
October 06, 2019 00:24 IST
It was alright for England, Scotland and Wales — Great Britain — to leave the European Union and get out of the Customs Union and the Single Market. But what of Northern Ireland, which shared the island with the Republic which wanted to remain in the EU?
Sun, Oct 06, 2019
Is Parliament sovereign in India or not? We need to know.Subscriber Only
September 29, 2019 05:09 IST
The crisis in the UK yields an interesting contrast concerning the question ‘Who Rules?’
Sun, Sep 29, 2019Journalism of Courage
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