DEGREES OF DEGRADATION, The Telegraph
In recent years, there has been a sharp decline in standards of political debate in India. In and out of Parliament, issues concerning the public good are rarely discussed logically [...]
SMALL STATE, LARGE NATION, The Hindu
Goa is the youngest part of India, having joined the Union only in December 1961. It is the smallest state in the country; one can drive across it in less [...]
ADIVASIS, NAXALITES, AND INDIAN DEMOCRACY, Economic and Political Weekly
On 13th December 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru moved the Objectives Resolution in the Constituent Assembly of India. This proclaimed that the soon-to-be-free nation would be an ‘Independent Sovereign Republic’. Its Constitution [...]
OPEN SEASON ON GANDHI AND NEHRU, Hindustan Times
We Indians are very insecure about our heroes. A scholar who retold, without endorsing them, some old stories about Shivaji’s parentage found his book banned and burnt. A writer who [...]
CHURCHILL PÉRE AND INDIA, The Hindu
In the last days of 1884, an English politician named Randolph Churchill landed in Bombay. Then in his mid thirties, he was a rising star of the Conservative Party, who [...]
TWO CHEERS FOR BLASPHEMY, Hindustan Times
How one reads the protests by the Governments of Iran and Pakistan at Salman Rushdie being made a knight depends on where one is placed on the political spectrum. Those [...]