Appreciating Nehru, The Hindu
The most admired human being on the planet may be a one-time boxer named Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. To spend three decades in prison fighting racial oppression, and then guide and [...]
Sonia’s Rise, The Telegraph
In Zareer Masani’s recent memoir of his parents, And All is Said, he quotes a letter written to him by his mother in 1968. ‘Yesterday we went to Mrs Pandit’s [...]
Syrian Memories, The Telegraph
On the 30th of January, 2008, a group of scholars working on Gandhi convened in the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. The organizers had in mind a day-long, informal, unstructured, conversation [...]
The State of My State, The Telegraph
I know that we may be speaking here of a race to the bottom, but I would still like to claim that the political culture of the state where I [...]
A Year A Londoner, The Telegraph
On the last day of June, I went to the nearest branch of the NatWest Bank and paid the sum of 43 pounds and ninety-four pence, this being the money [...]
The Indian Road to Unsustainability, Hindustan Times
In June 1992, Dr Manmohan Singh, then Finance Minister in the Government of India, delivered the Foundation Day Address of the Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD). He spoke [...]