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...
The Muck Of Indian Politics
History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce, but in Indian politics, the farce plays out so frequently that the tragic element is obscured. Four recent instances highlight...
Netas and the love for land
In Maharashtra, and arguably across the country, the state is increasingly identified with real estate. Former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan tells a story of how passing any legislation...
The Greatest
I never saw Muhammad Ali fight on television, never saw his great fights with Joe Frazier on live tv. We didn’t have multiple sports channels in the 1970s to...
PM Modi and the TINA factor
“We will change the face of India in ten years,” thundered Narendra Modi in a victory speech in Vadodra on May 16, 2014 within hours of his famous general...