Tunku Varadarajan is the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
April 10, 2016 00:10 IST
The escalation of the National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, incident has shown us up as a truly petty people.
Sun, Apr 10, 2016April 03, 2016 00:15 IST
A form of cricket once scorned by the purists can be a thing of real beauty.
Sun, Apr 03, 2016March 27, 2016 00:05 IST
On March 22, multiple explosions in Brussels left 31 dead. Five takeaways from the most recent act of Islamist terrorism in the West.
Sun, Mar 27, 2016March 20, 2016 00:09 IST
Here’s an Indian Test XI that would fight to the bitter end. I start with Gavaskar and Sehwag. And please note there is no Tendulkar.
Sun, Mar 20, 2016March 13, 2016 00:15 IST
The billionaire is wrecking the Republican Party — and making things easy for the Democrats.
Sun, Mar 13, 2016March 06, 2016 00:10 IST
Let us hail Kanhaiya. If not for his politics, then certainly for the eloquence of his language.
Sun, Mar 06, 2016February 28, 2016 00:16 IST
The ruling party should leave secularism alone. Economic reform is what will save India from itself
Sun, Feb 28, 2016February 21, 2016 00:36 IST
Some lessons from the national embarrassment that is the JNU sedition affair. Will non-Hindutva Modi voters be left in the lurch?
Sun, Feb 21, 2016February 14, 2016 00:56 IST
One is a political freak, the other a self-made leader with a vision for his country. The comparisons are amusing, but utterly facile.
Sun, Feb 14, 2016February 07, 2016 00:05 IST
Indians need to take drastic action to end racism against black Africans. We can’t be behaving like animals toward foreigners in our country.
Sun, Feb 07, 2016January 31, 2016 00:17 IST
There’s a galloping sense of ‘buyer’s remorse’, as the Old Continent wakes up to the truth that it has taken on a mass of people who cannot be assimilated.
Sun, Jan 31, 2016January 24, 2016 00:10 IST
A respected journalist is gagged by goons on a university campus.
Sun, Jan 24, 2016January 17, 2016 00:10 IST
Ms Haley is Indian-American, and Christian, and a political star.
Sun, Jan 17, 2016January 10, 2016 00:24 IST
What India must do—and not do—in its war against terrorists
Sun, Jan 10, 2016January 03, 2016 00:36 IST
From foreign policy to gay sex, what went wrong and what went right.
Sun, Jan 03, 2016December 27, 2015 00:20 IST
The hypocrisy of the Islamic world is laid bare once more
Sun, Dec 27, 2015December 20, 2015 00:30 IST
As Nirbhaya, Jyoti became a symbol of civic convenience that fit with Indian society’s patriarchy. We know her name. Let’s say it aloud, again and again
Sun, Dec 20, 2015December 13, 2015 00:05 IST
All that makes and breaks the country — faith to family, politics to media.
Sun, Dec 13, 2015December 06, 2015 00:20 IST
In both, cricket and politics, what we were seeing was a species of indignant, nationalist pushback against standards set by the West.
Sun, Dec 06, 2015November 29, 2015 00:13 IST
I’d be lying if I were to say that I don’t enjoy watching India play Pak. That word — enjoy — is a meagre way to describe the feelings that course through millions of Indians when India takes on its westerly neighbour.
Sun, Nov 29, 2015November 22, 2015 00:19 IST
It hardly needs stating, also, that the Islamist terrorists are as brutal to those Muslims who aren’t of a hardline Salafi creed as they are to non-Muslim infidels.
Sun, Nov 22, 2015November 15, 2015 00:00 IST
There’s only one truly pan-Indian leader, Modi, whether we like him or not. The salvation of India rests with him, provided he reforms himself.
Sun, Nov 15, 2015November 08, 2015 00:06 IST
India needed a leader of the nation. Instead, it got the leader of a party.
Sun, Nov 08, 2015November 01, 2015 00:10 IST
The government has scarred its foreign policy with its stupidity on Nepal.
Sun, Nov 01, 2015October 25, 2015 00:06 IST
The best name for Sehwag is the Great Deflator. No modern batsman could take the wind out of an opening attack — deflate it, in other words — as adeptly as Sehwag.
Sun, Oct 25, 2015