RECALLING A TOUCH ARTIST, The Telegraph
The two greatest comebacks in the history of Indian sport were both conducted in the great city of Kolkata. The better-known, since more recent, was the magnificent 281 scored by [...]
TOWARDS A GENDER-SENSITIVE CIVIL CODE, Hindustan Times
Article 44 of the Constitution of India reads: ‘The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India’. The first Prime Minister [...]
SELECTIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS, The Telegraph
A mail arrived in my Inbox last week, as part of a circular sent to many people with some connection to the press. Addressed to ‘the Chief Editor/ Photographer’, it [...]
WRITERS AND POLITICS, The Hindu
I have been reading the correspondence of the American polymath Edmund Wilson. Wilson was the most influential literary critic of his day, whose essays and reviews could make or break [...]
THE KLEPTOCRAT AND THE DEMOCRAT, The Telegraph
In September I was in the United States, travelling around the cities of the East Coast. The exiled Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto had been there a few weeks previously, visiting [...]
THE LUCK OF THE SOUTH, The Hindu
One of my all-time favourite places is the temple of Somanathapura. It is less visited than other famous Hoysala shrines such as Belur and Halebidu, in part because it lies [...]