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  • May
    20

    History of heroes

    This past week, I travelled to Shivpuri, a small city that’s a two-hour drive from Gwalior.

  • May
    06

    Presidents and precedent

    President Pratibha Patil ends her term in very much the foggy environment in which she began it.

  • Apr
    22

    Nostalgia noose

    Arresting a Jadavpur University (JU) professor for emailing an innocuous cartoon that poked fun at Mamata Banerjee is just indefensible.

  • Apr
    08

    Two easy diners at 7, Race Course

    Despite fervid attempts by the usual suspects and impressionable sections of the media, the government and the Prime Minister’s Office

  • Mar
    25

    An Indian story we don’t hear often

    This past week Dilip Tirkey became one of India’s unlikeliest MPs, being elected to the Rajya Sabha from his native Orissa as a Biju Janata Dal

  • Mar
    11

    No goodbyes in India

    Greg Chappell, former Australian cricketer and once coach of the Indian cricket team, has made several disparaging remarks

  • Feb
    28

    Battle of Awadh & the ruler of Bengal

    On March 6, the results of the Uttar Pradesh elections will be known. Watching them closely will be a person whose party

  • Feb
    12

    The Modi business

    Depending on how you saw him, George Wallace was one of the most colourful, charismatic or controversial politicians

  • Jan
    29

    The banned critics of faltering India

    Alexander Campbell was a Scotsman who served in the 1950s as Time magazine’s correspondent in New Delhi.

  • Jan
    15

    The China syndrome

    In October this year, India commemorates the 50th anniversary of the war with China.