September 2010
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 of the East’, whose editors [...]
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. Having dropped out of the [...]
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 called). Her election was both [...]
August 2010
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 large amounts of foreign exchange [...]
THREE CHEERS FOR TEST CRICKET, The Telegraph
At close of play on the fourth day of the last Test of the recent India-Sri Lanka series, I rang up the legendary slow bowler Bishan Singh Bedi. The match was intriguingly poised. India needed [...]
A PROPHET ANNOUNCES HIMSELF, Times Literary Supplement
In the third week of September 1909, The Illustrated London News published a withering attack on the idea of Indian nationalism. Its author was G. K. Chesterton, who was then writing a weekly column for [...]