THE NORTH-EAST AND THE NATION, The Telegraph
Earlier this year I spent ten days travelling through three states of north-eastern India. My journey began in Manipur, where, on my first night, I had dinner with a bunch [...]
EXTREMISM THEN AND NOW, The Hindu
Six weeks after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the (then undivided) Communist Party of India held a party congress in Calcutta. The General Secretary of the CPI was P. C. [...]
HOW NOT TO FIGHT EXTREMISM, Hindustan Times
In the spring of 1990, a great Indian patriot, the liberal jurist V. M. Tarkunde, led a team of independent citizens on a study tour of the Kashmir Valley. Many [...]
THE TATTERED IDEAL, The Hindu
My friend T. R. Ramakrishna, a sportswriter and sports buff of an uncommon intelligence and senstivity, recently sent me a book published in the past which speaks directly to the [...]
WATCHING THE WATCHDOG, The Telegraph
The formal institutions of Indian democracy are not especially marked by the capacity for self-correction and self-criticism. One fact should make this clear—that no senior politician, civil servant, or judge [...]
A MAESTRO IN MANIPUR, The Telegraph
If the mast-head of this newspaper was long enough, or if the type it uses was smaller, this column could have carried the title: ‘MEETING A MAESTRO ON A MISTY [...]