Tunku Varadarajan is the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
October 18, 2015 00:32 IST
The Desi Modi stands in depressing contrast to Modi Abroad
Sun, Oct 18, 2015October 11, 2015 00:20 IST
The president went where the PM feared to go
Sun, Oct 11, 2015October 04, 2015 00:00 IST
The murder of Mohammad Akhlaq shows up India in all its ugliness.
Sun, Oct 04, 2015September 27, 2015 00:00 IST
Indian-Americans are in a frenzy yet again over yet another visit to the US by Narendra Modi.
Sun, Sep 27, 2015September 20, 2015 00:25 IST
Our culture minister is a man who can’t quite bring himself to believe that Muslims can be proper Indians.
Sun, Sep 20, 2015September 13, 2015 00:43 IST
Panchjanya is utterly misguided about English and Hindi
Sun, Sep 13, 2015September 06, 2015 02:16 IST
Commentators on the subject have mocked him as conforming to the Hindu nationalists’ idea of a “good Muslim”.
Sun, Sep 06, 2015August 30, 2015 00:00 IST
Indians hate to walk. At sprawling foreign airports, they often don’t need to.
Sun, Aug 30, 2015August 23, 2015 00:00 IST
What the Prime Minister can learn from the recent elections in the Emerald Isle.
Sun, Aug 23, 2015August 16, 2015 00:00 IST
I’m Rafi over Kishore Kumar, Dravid over Tendulkar. But I’m not Indian. Or, put another way: I’m not an Indian citizen.
Sun, Aug 16, 2015August 09, 2015 00:00 IST
Indian cricket teams are infuriating.
Sun, Aug 09, 2015August 02, 2015 00:40 IST
Why do I pick Dravid? For starters, he is the embodiment of world-class excellence in a land of irrepressible mediocrity.
Sun, Aug 02, 2015July 26, 2015 00:00 IST
The makers of Bajrangi Bhaijaan and its main star, Salman Khan, clearly intend to deliver a message to audiences in India (and to Indians worldwide). The message is, “We Are All the Same”.
Sun, Jul 26, 2015July 19, 2015 00:00 IST
BCCI — the Board of Charlatans and Carpetbaggers in India — is a multimillion-dollar embarrassment, a phenomenally profitable affront to cricket.
Sun, Jul 19, 2015July 12, 2015 00:00 IST
Boastful talk of the India-Pakistan matchup being better than the Ashes has disappeared these days.
Sun, Jul 12, 2015July 05, 2015 00:00 IST
Let us prepare for Hillary, but as we do, let’s also enjoy the circus of the American election.
Sun, Jul 05, 2015June 28, 2015 00:00 IST
This streak of gamesmanship is new to Bangladesh, perverse proof of a new self-confidence.
Sun, Jun 28, 2015June 21, 2015 00:00 IST
Horror of racist massacre was compounded by the fact that the victims were killed while at prayer.
Sun, Jun 21, 2015June 14, 2015 00:00 IST
At 52, he can take fresh guard—middle and leg, please, umpire—and prepare to face a less hostile attack.
Sun, Jun 14, 2015June 07, 2015 00:00 IST
The key to Bobby Jindal is to grasp early, and clearly, that he’s not Indian. He’s said as much, avowing in public that he doesn’t wish to be regarded as “Indian-American”.
Sun, Jun 07, 2015May 31, 2015 00:20 IST
Let us give thanks to the United States, and take comfort from the fact that it is the world’s judicial superpower.
Sun, May 31, 2015May 24, 2015 00:00 IST
Using cricket as a metaphor, addressing the long pattern of patronising behaviour toward a neighbour that deserves Indian respect, but seldom gets it.
Sun, May 24, 2015May 17, 2015 00:00 IST
By privatising slivers of State-owned companies and allowing public-private partnerships, the government has been able to raise capital from the private sector.
Sun, May 17, 2015