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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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Out of my mind: Him or her?Subscriber Only
November 06, 2016 00:05 IST
US Presidential elections 2016: Professionals thought that the irresponsible statements by Donald Trump will make him unpopular. But he won in many primaries.
Sun, Nov 06, 2016
Out of my mind: Mumbai meri jaanSubscriber Only
October 30, 2016 03:57 IST
The irony of KJo’s Rs 5-crore deal is that the song on which the film title is based on is about the dangers of living in Bombay (as it then was).
Sun, Oct 30, 2016
Out of my mind: Futile campaignsSubscriber Only
October 23, 2016 00:20 IST
If Pakistan is causing problems for India, why rush to the UK or the US?
Sun, Oct 23, 2016
Out of my mind: A dangerous worldSubscriber Only
October 16, 2016 00:27 IST
President Vladimir Putin is happy to help him in bombing civilians and aid convoys, and starving Aleppo of medical supplies. No one knows how many have died or how many will yet die.
Sun, Oct 16, 2016
Out of my mind: Diversity or difference ?Subscriber Only
October 09, 2016 00:00 IST
The most worrying part of the Cauvery dispute is that it pits citizens of one state against another, as if they were independent nations.
Sun, Oct 09, 2016
Out of my mind: Let sense prevailSubscriber Only
October 02, 2016 01:01 IST
India has asserted its right to cross the LoC to eliminate the terrorist camps. But the official Pakistani army is yet to engage.
Sun, Oct 02, 2016Out of my mind: The Chinese waySubscriber Only
September 25, 2016 01:15 IST
Once the Prime Minister had opened out the quarrel with Pakistan by putting PoK and Balochistan in the gambit, some retaliation should have been foreseen.
Sun, Sep 25, 2016
Out of my mind: Family quarrelsSubscriber Only
September 18, 2016 00:10 IST
If the family quarrel weakens the SP, then the BJP could become the senior partner in a coalition government.
Sun, Sep 18, 2016
Out of my mind: Kashmir pattern repeats itselfSubscriber Only
September 11, 2016 01:40 IST
The student movement erupted in Berkeley, California, in 1964 for Free Speech. They began a teach-in to ask why the US was in Vietnam.
Sun, Sep 11, 2016
Out of my mind: Who is afraid of the RSS?Subscriber Only
September 04, 2016 00:50 IST
The RSS and CPI were founded in the same year, 1925, but somehow the RSS has waxed while the CPI has waned.
Sun, Sep 04, 2016
Out of my mind: AAP serious hai?Subscriber Only
August 28, 2016 01:30 IST
Kejriwal’s attention is fixed on winning the Centre rather than making mohallas run better.
Sun, Aug 28, 2016
Out of my mind: Seventy years onSubscriber Only
August 21, 2016 00:02 IST
The decade of 1977-1986 had few compensations. Strife in Punjab, the assassination of a prime minister, the slaughter in Delhi, plus Bofors.
Sun, Aug 21, 2016
Out of my mind: Cowboys versus IndiansSubscriber Only
August 14, 2016 00:13 IST
The Prime Minister assumed his rightful place as a national leader with his speech in the Lok Sabha, which was inclusive and generous towards the opposition parties.
Sun, Aug 14, 2016
Out of my mind: Task aheadSubscriber Only
August 07, 2016 00:16 IST
It is just that even with the BJP/ NDA government, people would rather debate cow protection than ways of eradicating poverty.
Sun, Aug 07, 2016
If India is to make Jammu & Kashmir love India, referendum is the only waySubscriber Only
July 31, 2016 01:15 IST
The Congress failed in the 50 years after Independence to win over the minds and hearts of the people of the Valley. The reconciliation process began with Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Sun, Jul 31, 2016
Out of my mind: Self-goal heroesSubscriber Only
July 24, 2016 02:26 IST
Not just the Arunachal switch but the choice of Sheila Dikshit for the UP are warnings to the BJP.
Mon, Jul 25, 2016
Out of my mind: Changing guardSubscriber Only
July 17, 2016 04:06 IST
Over the centuries, the Conservative Party has upheld the existing order and resisted ideas of rapid change.
Sun, Jul 17, 2016
Out of my mind: Big gambleSubscriber Only
July 10, 2016 01:42 IST
The origins of the Brexit vote, indeed of the need to call the Referendum, lie in the recent past of the Conservative Party.
Sun, Jul 10, 2016
Out of my mind: Modi’s challengeSubscriber Only
July 03, 2016 01:16 IST
Modi has now recognised the challenge Swamy poses. He has moved to contain him. But this is not the end of the story, just the end of the beginning.
Sun, Jul 03, 2016
Out of my mind: Making historySubscriber Only
June 26, 2016 01:39 IST
The notion that joining a multi-country union is loss of independence is hard to credit. But ultimately that is the message the people have given.
Sun, Jun 26, 2016
Out of my mind: The last stateSubscriber Only
June 19, 2016 00:18 IST
No party aspires to radically transform UP, modernise its social structures or promise to bring it up to the average. Each wants power for its own sake.
Sun, Jun 19, 2016
Brexit or notSubscriber Only
June 15, 2016 00:05 IST
Europe is an issue that has split Britain’s Labour party. Now it is the turn of the Conservatives
Wed, Jun 15, 2016
Out of my mind: Getting thereSubscriber Only
June 12, 2016 00:05 IST
When Jawarlal Nehru became prime minister, the Cold War had already started and the Americans presumed that as a democracy India would be in their camp.
Sun, Jun 12, 2016
Out of My Mind: What is the Rajya Sabha for?Subscriber Only
June 05, 2016 00:47 IST
The election process to the Rajya Sabha is highly predictable. In most states, parties know how many of their own nominees can be elected.
Sun, Jun 05, 2016
The next thousand daysSubscriber Only
May 29, 2016 01:00 IST
Having lost Delhi in overconfidence and Bihar in a tactically bad campaign, Assam has restored the nerves. Modi is a winner.
Sun, May 29, 2016Journalism of Courage
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