REFUGEES AND THE REPUBLIC, The Telegraph
At a meeting in Chennai that I recently attended, an official of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, herself a Swiss national, remarked that ‘the Indian Government has a [...]
QUESTIONS OF PROPRIETY, Hindustan Times
When, in the year 1974, Mrs Indira Gandhi and Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) became bitter political opponents, there was a peculiar poignancy to their rivalry. For JP and Jawaharlal Nehru had [...]
FAITH CYNICAL AND SUBLIME, The Telegraph
In the spring of 1907, the London publisher John Murray published a book on Persian mystics by one F. Hadland Davis. The book appeared in a series called ‘The Wisdom [...]
THE LIVING LEGACY OF SANJAY GANDHI, The Telegraph
The only time I have been less than sorrowful at a premature death was when Sanjay Gandhi perished in an air crash. He was truly a nasty piece of work. [...]
THE SPORTING-AND UNSPORTING-POLITICIAN, Hindustan Times
In the first week of August, a senior woman Congressman with a home in Shimla was elected President of the Indian Hockey Association (or Hockey India as it is now [...]
TWO KINDS OF GLOBALIZATION, The Telegraph
At the beginning of this century, my home town, Bangalore, became a showpiece for the advantages to India of an outward-looking economic policy. The city’s Information Technology industry was generating [...]