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  • May
    17

    The availability of intolerance

    One of the strange things about democratic India is that democracy has become a label which tells us little about its contents.

  • May
    03

    An old-fashioned look at cricket

    Years ago, the psychologist Ashis Nandy observed that cricket as a game was an Indian invention accidentally discovered by the English.

  • Apr
    19

    The many flavours of goodness

    As children, we waited everyday for the newspaper. It was a magic well creating a circle of conversation.

  • Apr
    05

    Public policy in a knowledge society

    Imagine you are a citizen racing across newspapers rapid fire. As you flip the pages you run across events like the Vedanta mining case

  • Mar
    22

    The legend of Paan Singh Tomar

    It is not often that Hindi movie creates a new myth out of the fragments of history. It is not often that Hindi film goes beyond the sentimental

  • Mar
    08

    The power of dissent

    Politics in India is full of ironies played out at several levels. At one level, we are watching the Uttar Pradesh election unravel itself as a festival of democracy.

  • Feb
    27

    Godhra, meet me at Gulberg

  • Feb
    21

    Ascetic prince, dalit duchess

    Uttar Pradesh's political characters are larger than life and none are larger than Mayawati.

  • Jan
    26

    The emptiness of literary protest

    The Jaipur Literature Festival saw the long shadow of The Satanic Verses displace any other controversy or literary debate.

  • Jan
    12

    The poverty of innovation

    One of the ironic things about the new year is that we actually think it is new. We expect new thoughts, new models