Why I will not speak on the Arnab-Barkha ‘war’
A website rang me up last evening asking if I would like to express an opinion on the ongoing ‘war’ between Arnab Goswami and Barkha Dutt on tv and...
25 years of Manmohanomics: Thank you Doc!
“I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament”: Manmohan Singh in January 2014 announcing...
Terror has an address
‘So, why is it that every terror attack involves a Muslim?’ It’s a question that’s asked with rising anger after every terror attack. It’s not an invalid question in...
Burhan Wani and Patriot Games
During the 1983 Falklands war, a member of the Margaret Thatcher government angrily described the BBC as the ‘Stateless People’s Broadcasting Corporation’ because it referred to the forces as...
First Squadron Of ‘Tejas’ Aircraft Inducted Into The Indian Air Force
The very first squadron of the home grown light combat aircraft, Tejas was inducted into the Indian Air Force, three long decades after the conceptualization in Bangalore. Fitted with...
Don’t write off Smriti Irani
Life on Twitter can be nasty, brutish and short. Which is perhaps why within moments of the news breaking that Smriti Irani had been shifted out of the HRD...