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.
Raj Thackeray has at last been arrested. Supine governments in Maharashtra and Delhi have after many months decided to show a bit of force to assert the Rule of Law.