The Resource That Will Determine Our Future, Hindustan Times
The ecologist Jayanta Bandyopadhyay once wrote that water, not oil, was the resource whose availability and quality would determine India’s future. I recalled that remark when reading a report recently [...]
The Political Career Of Sonia Gandhi, The Telegraph
A line often quoted by columnists, and attributed to the British politician and writer Enoch Powell is this: ‘All political lives end in failure’. The full form of the quote [...]
Rediscovering One’s Land, The Telegraph
On the second day of 2017, I drove from the colonial hill station of Coonoor to the great old port city of Kochi. Thus began a month of almost continuous [...]
When Eleven Women Of Bengal Took On Gandhi, The Telegraph
While working in the archives of the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, I came across a fascinating letter to Gandhi, sent by eleven young women of Calcutta. The letter was undated, [...]
The Best Player Not To Play For India, Hindustan Times
This winter India play thirteen Test matches at home. The last time they played so many was back in 1979-80, when two in three Indians now alive were unborn. This [...]
A Contemporary View Of Nehru and Patel, Hindustan Times
My home town, Bengaluru, has the country’s best second-hand bookstores. For decades now, they have sustained me in a personal and professional sense, providing materials for my bed-time reading as [...]