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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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An incurable diseaseSubscriber Only
November 14, 2010 00:13 IST
Jayanti Patel,a Gujarati actor-playwright,had a play,Neta Abhineta,in the late 1950s.
Sun, Nov 14, 2010Congress at 125Subscriber Only
November 07, 2010 05:21 IST
Mahatma Gandhi thought he would live up to be 125. Alas,that was not to be.
Sun, Nov 07, 2010The man whos coming to dinnerSubscriber Only
October 31, 2010 03:00 IST
What a difference a year makes.
Sun, Oct 31, 2010Its Kashmir againSubscriber Only
October 24, 2010 04:28 IST
IT has been only a month and a week since the all-party parliamentary delegation went to Kashmir.
Sun, Oct 24, 2010Succession politicsSubscriber Only
October 17, 2010 05:30 IST
Back in Britain,we have a new leader of the Labour Party.
Sun, Oct 17, 2010Problematic politicsSubscriber Only
October 10, 2010 04:45 IST
Javed Akhtar said something very important the other day. As a Muslim,he said,he could not be secular.
Sun, Oct 10, 2010Insaf ka mandirSubscriber Only
October 03, 2010 04:14 IST
Shakeel Badayuni,the great Urdu poet and lyricist,wrote Insaf ka mandir hai ye,bhagwan ka ghar hai.
Sun, Oct 03, 2010The spectre of a domeSubscriber Only
September 26, 2010 02:49 IST
A spectre haunts India. It is the spectre of the dome of a disused mosque surrounded by a mob which has just destroyed it.
Sun, Sep 26, 2010What is to be done?Subscriber Only
September 19, 2010 01:41 IST
I went on my first Civil Rights March in Berkeley,California,in 1963.
Sun, Sep 19, 2010Who is afraid of China?Subscriber Only
September 12, 2010 03:03 IST
The Prime Minister drew more attention for what he said about disagreements in the Cabinet than what he said about China.
Sun, Sep 12, 2010Of mosques and templesSubscriber Only
September 05, 2010 02:58 IST
The controversy in New York over the opening of the Cordoba Centre which will house a mosque,is getting quite fierce.
Sun, Sep 05, 2010The Rahul AvatarSubscriber Only
August 29, 2010 04:33 IST
Rahul Gandhi keeps awayfrom day to day politics. He has quite rightly shunned Cabinet and is busy in the Congress grassroots organisation.
Sun, Aug 29, 2010One more decisionSubscriber Only
August 22, 2010 02:57 IST
Khushwant Singh is a great novelist and a prolific journalist but his statement that Dr Manmohan Singh is a greater Prime Minister than Nehru or Indira Gandhi can cause nothing but trouble for the PM....
Sun, Aug 22, 2010Time for changeSubscriber Only
August 15, 2010 04:21 IST
Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy has made one of the most radical proposals that I have come across in years...
Sun, Aug 15, 2010Denial is failureSubscriber Only
August 10, 2010 04:19 IST
The lessons for Kashmir from the Northern Ireland peace
Tue, Aug 10, 2010Making the changeSubscriber Only
August 08, 2010 02:25 IST
Haroun-Al-Rashid used to go around his capital incognito to hear what his citizens were saying.
Sun, Aug 08, 2010An obliging oppositionSubscriber Only
August 01, 2010 03:03 IST
Where would the UPA be without the NDA? In serious trouble,I think. The Government could face a well ordered,ferocious critique of its policies and be brought to account for the many unresolved problems that India faces....
Sun, Aug 01, 2010A very rough guide to IndiaSubscriber Only
July 25, 2010 03:06 IST
This is your first trip as British Prime Minister though I know you have been to India before. You lead a coalition government which is a novel experience for the British....
Sun, Jul 25, 2010Shrinking HeroesSubscriber Only
July 18, 2010 03:42 IST
Once again we have a display of the insecurities of the Maratha people....
Sun, Jul 18, 2010Indias OtherSubscriber Only
July 11, 2010 03:28 IST
When CRPF personnel die in Gondwana,there is an outcry,but the resolve is that the Army will not be deployed....
Sun, Jul 11, 2010Tectonic shiftsSubscriber Only
July 04, 2010 03:26 IST
The Toronto G20 was much less dramatic than the London one last year.
Sun, Jul 04, 2010Effective coalitionsSubscriber Only
June 27, 2010 03:01 IST
Ever since the Congress lost its hegemonic position in Indian politics in 1989,coalitions are the rule rather than the exceptions.
Sun, Jun 27, 2010Its nobodys faultSubscriber Only
June 20, 2010 02:55 IST
Arjun Singh is a secular politician. Indeed,he is also a Congress politician and a faithful servant of the Dynasty. Hence,he can do no wrong....
Sun, Jun 20, 2010Lenin RememberedSubscriber Only
June 13, 2010 02:12 IST
When I was in my teens in the Fifties,we used to have debates about Gandhi versus Lenin. Who was greater? Whose message would win in the end?....
Sun, Jun 13, 2010A Tragedy ForetoldSubscriber Only
June 06, 2010 02:19 IST
It seems nowadays India is in a perpetual election cycle. If there are no state elections then there are municipal elections or Vidhan Sabha ones....
Sun, Jun 06, 2010Journalism of Courage
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