January 2007
SCOTTISH INTERNATIONALIST, The Hindu
‘India lives in her villages’, said Mahatma Gandhi. This is an injunction that the environmental movement in India has taken very seriously indeed. Thus scholars and activists have argued about such matters as the commercial [...]
SCOTTISH INTERNATIONALIST, The Hindu
‘India lives in her villages’, said Mahatma Gandhi. This is an injunction that the environmental movement in India has taken very seriously indeed. Thus scholars and activists have argued about such matters as the commercial [...]
REGIONALISM AND THE REPUBLIC, The Telegraph
The recent attacks on Bihari labourers by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) are criminal acts, and deserve to be treated as such by the security forces, and by the people of Assam. But [...]
GENTLE DENTS IN A WORTHY IDOL, The Telegraph
I think it is fair to say that of all Indian industralists past and present, J. R. D. Tata has been the most widely admired. Part of the reason had to do with his business [...]
December 2006
A SHORT NOTE ON A SHORT ESSAY ON THE SHORT STORY, The Telegraph
The first argument I had with my wife was about literature. We had known each other only a few weeks, but fortunately—in those pre-cable TV, pre-Internet, days—we knew already that boy and girl could find [...]
November 2006
KASHMIR THEN AS NOW, The Hindu
Among the minor figures of modern Indian history, one who has long intrigued me is the civil servant and journalist A. D. Gorwala. Born in 1900, Gorwala studied in Bombay and England before joining the [...]