The writer is based in Bangalore. His most recent book is Gandhi Before India.
May 20,2015 00:00:24 AM
A year later, Smriti Irani is by far the most controversial cabinet minister, and with good reason.
May 31,1999 00:00:00 AM
On the eve of the current World Cup, a leading newspaper published a leading article on the larger significance, to India, of the competi...
March 10,1999 00:00:00 AM
Has someone who has spent many years studying the life and work of Verrier Elwin, I read with interest Raman Kirpal's story of his first ...
June 01,1998 00:00:00 AM
He who invented the atom bomb has committed the greatest sin in the world of science.--Mahatma Gandhi, after HiroshimaI extend my felicitati...
December 15,1997 00:00:00 AM
Through these columns a year ago, I had shown how the award of the Bharat Ratna had been steadily politicised over the years. In the fiftie...
December 08,1997 00:00:00 AM
Back in the glory days of the licence-permit-quota Raj, Indian environmentalists were the target of sharp attack by the state socialists. T...
July 24,1997 00:00:00 AM
Mahatma Gandhi was not so such the Father of the Nation as the mother of all debates regarding its future. All his life he fought in a frie...
June 26,1997 00:00:00 AM
For some time now the Indian cricket team has been made to carry the burden of a frustrated, unfulfilled and difficult-to-please fan follow...
