The writer is a Delhi-based senior journalist

May 16,2004 00:00:00 AM
HE’S a little fellow, generally standing no more than five foot and a bit on his bare feet or in raggedly chappals. He’s probably ...
Sun, May 16, 2004
May 05,2004 00:00:00 AM
Some 400 km from New Delhi and perceptional light years from Amethi, live election 2004’s other mother, son and political legacy. Like ...
Wed, May 05, 2004
April 29,2004 00:00:00 AM
In a time when psephological alchemists appear determined to gift the Congress a phantom majority by the fourth round of exit polling, discu...
Thu, Apr 29, 2004
April 23,2004 00:00:00 AM
Seven for four is a poor start to a cricket match. For Rahul Mehra and Shantanu Sharma it the number of benches their ‘‘cricket PI...
Fri, Apr 23, 2004
April 10,2004 00:00:00 AM
Earlier this week, Roger Cohen, until a few months ago, the New York Times foreign editor and now its international writer-at-large, arrived...
Sat, Apr 10, 2004
April 09,2004 00:00:00 AM
It is said of the Rothschilds, perhaps the world’s best known business family, that they were the financiers when European governments ...
Fri, Apr 09, 2004
April 02,2004 00:00:00 AM
Through the month of March, long-time BJP watchers — the sort of folk who have converted “hidden agenda” into both an article...
Fri, Apr 02, 2004
March 28,2004 00:00:00 AM
Mumbai, Saturday, April 24: Springing a surprise at the trendy Tendulkar’s restaurant, Pakistan cricket captain Inzamam ul Haq turned c...
Sun, Mar 28, 2004
March 21,2004 00:00:00 AM
FOR 20 years now, most Indians who’ve heard of Abdul Rahman Bukhatir probably think of him as another of those very rich, very eccentri...
Sun, Mar 21, 2004
March 17,2004 00:00:00 AM
Bangalore has just beaten the Rest of the World 6-0. This is no tennis score, only a tabulation of the six most recent datelines from where ...
Wed, Mar 17, 2004
March 13,2004 00:00:00 AM
For, the ‘‘Vision 2004’’ document of the BJP, expected to be released towards the end of the month, is likely to enuncia...
Sat, Mar 13, 2004
March 12,2004 00:00:00 AM
Growth with harmony’’ is the slogan the Congress is likely to use on the cover of its 35-odd page manifesto. On the ground though,...
Fri, Mar 12, 2004
March 03,2004 00:00:00 AM
Ever since the fog lifted on the proposal to send Saurav Ganguly’s team across the Wagah, there is a general consensus that the Indo-Pa...
Wed, Mar 03, 2004
February 22,2004 00:00:00 AM
MANY years ago, a television interviewer asked Mithun Chakraborty, sometime Naxalite and onetime film star, if he was making his political a...
Sun, Feb 22, 2004
February 19,2004 00:00:00 AM
India, they say, is the flavour of the season in the United States. This week, New Delhi played host to someone who was an Indophile well be...
Thu, Feb 19, 2004
February 14,2004 00:00:00 AM
Pakistan’s best known Indophile couple are here for Valentine’s Day. Najam Sethi, editor-in-chief of Friday Times and Daily Times,...
Sat, Feb 14, 2004
February 01,2004 00:00:00 AM
AT once comic and excruciatingly tiresome, ‘‘Karunakaran vs Antony’’ is the oldest running soap opera in Indian politics...
Sun, Feb 01, 2004
January 23,2004 00:00:00 AM
Many years ago, when Soviet books could be had cheap — indeed, had at all — when Harkishen Singh Surjeet still dreamt of socialism...
Fri, Jan 23, 2004
January 04,2004 00:00:00 AM
IN the telegrammatic world of newspaper headline writers, a chestnut that resurfaces periodically, especially in the murky, confusing season...
Sun, Jan 04, 2004
December 28,2003 00:00:00 AM
IF Kalyan Singh does indeed come back to the BJP, it may be necessary to rewrite at lease one axiom. Henceforth, in geometry, saffron style,...
Sun, Dec 28, 2003
December 25,2003 00:00:00 AM
Whatever the outcome of the Boxing Day Test match in Melbourne, Indian cricket fans will look back at 2003 with a rare smugness, almost as r...
Thu, Dec 25, 2003
December 21,2003 00:00:00 AM
Perhaps it is divine justice that all the focus this past week has been on Rahul Dravid and so little of it on V.V.S. Laxman, the man who hi...
Sun, Dec 21, 2003
December 07,2003 00:00:00 AM
At first glance, Andrew Wheatcroft’s Infidels seems yet another offering from the prodigious post-9/11 publishing industry. That would ...
Sun, Dec 07, 2003
November 30,2003 00:00:00 AM
IT was October 1998 and the first ICC Champions Trophy — it was then called rather awkwardly, the Mini World Cup — was about to be...
Sun, Nov 30, 2003
November 27,2003 00:00:00 AM
For a phenomenon so fascinatingly unpredictable, Indian politics lends itself to template-style punditry. Every set of state elections evoke...
Thu, Nov 27, 2003



