Traveling With Tagore, Penguin Classics
Rammohan Roy was able to assimilate the ideals of Europe so completely because he was not overwhelmed by them; there was no poverty or weakness on his side. He had [...]
Where Are The Conservative Intellectuals in India, Caravan (March 2015)
There is a paradox at the heart of Indian public life today: that while the country has a right-wing party in power, right-wing intellectuals run thinly on the ground. This [...]
The Best Indian Fielding Side Ever, Hindustan Times
As one grows older, one forgets what happened last week or last month. But memories from one’s youth stay for ever. I can see, as I write, Alvin Kallicharan trying [...]
Judging The Judges, The Telegraph
Here, in full, is a recent news item in a New Delhi newspaper: ‘When former Chief Justice of India and current Kerala Governor P Sathasivam came to Delhi to attend [...]
Two Leaders and Their Parties, The Telegraph
I visit Delhi half a dozen times a year. I was most recently there from February 5th to 11th, to fulfil commitments made several months ago, these fortuitously coinciding with [...]
How Gandhi’s Martyrdom Saved India, Hindustan Times
On the 31st of January 1948, a former Indian Civil Service officer named Malcolm Darling, then living in retirement in London, wrote in his diary: ‘Gandhi was assassinated yesterday. … [...]