Ladakh “Modi’s wake up call from China”
When a column becomes a video blog.. why China is a reality check for the Modi brand of ‘personality centric’ diplomacy
Achche Din are Over: Get Real India!
Dear Prime Minister, Since this is the season for open letters, I thought I would pen one too. At the very outset, let me congratulate you on the remarkable...
What Really Is Modinomics
Prime minister Narendra Modi has a well deserved reputation for throwing up catchy phrases and acronyms. Which is why his economic policies have often been loosely branded as ‘Modi-nomics’....
When Pak-bashing becomes an Indian Election Issue
When Narendra Modi is on the campaign trail in his ‘janmabhoomi’ of Gujarat, his rabble-rousing rhetoric usually gets even more theatrical. Not surprisingly then, he chose a public rally...
War games in election season
War is not a cricket match and an air strike should not be reduced to a political spectacle. But we are in election season which might explain the well-choreographed...
Why India must play Pakistan more, not less
If paanwallahs in north India are a signpost for the election breeze, then taxi-drivers in London are often astute sports forecasters. When my London cabbie turns out to be...
Will politics shrink in 2017?
We live, to put it mildly, in “interesting times”. This is an age where TV family serials have given way to political soap operas: Are Akhilesh and Mulayam at...
Modi’s firm message but can war-mongers be kept at bay?
In the universe of the 24×7 media, there is literally no place to hide. Which is why it should come as no surprise that a video of Prime Minister...
Something’s got to give
One of the more joyous moments of fatherhood was taking my son, then all of nine years, to watch an India-Pakistan one-day match in Lahore in 2004. Our Pakistani...