December 2011
Register Newsletter
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A Plague On All Our Houses, Hindustan Times
The Republic of India has a billion (and more) citizens who, at any given time, are involved in a thousand (and more) controversies. Knowing which controversy is the most significant is always hard, and often [...]
Jinnah Reassessed, The Telegraph
(17 Dec 2011) It was on a pavement near Bombay’s Flora Fountain, some fifteen years ago, that I discovered Hamid Dalwai. On the hard dark stone the title of his book leapt out for attention: [...]
October 2011
THE SARDAR OF SPIN, The Telegraph
In the third week of August, I got a call from a friend in Delhi, the great slow bowler Bishan Singh Bedi. ‘Everyone around me is shouting Anna Hazare! Anna Hazare!’, he said: ‘A few [...]
September 2011
NEARER THAN OUR NEIGHBOURS, Hindustan Times
When I was invited to visit Kabul, my family were naturally unenthusiastic. I disregarded their advice for two reasons: first, because my host was a brilliant and brave diplomat, whom I was loth to let [...]
A MAN TO MATCH HIS MOUNTAINS, The Telegraph
The importance of the India International Centre (IIC) in New Delhi is gauged, in part, by the number of armed security men who pass through its portals. These come to accompany—and, one supposes, protect—the big [...]