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Why is Manmohan Singh so desperate to appease Pakistan? 16 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm
Army chief Bikram Singh pays last tribute to jawans killed by Pakistani soldiers A feckless Prime Minister can only be expected to cut corners with India's interest and security. But that does not me...
Change electoral system to fight graft... 31 Jul 2012 | 10:38 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE This is the second part of what Atal Bihari Vajpayee told me when I interviewed him in December 1997. It was published in The Times of India unde...
'I dream of a strong, prosperous India' 28 Jul 2012 | 11:58 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE "At a time when every party was singing paens to the Nehruvian model of command economy, the Jana Sangh was demanding that the economy be freed f...
Who let the trolls in? 11 Jun 2012 | 06:21 am
Welcome to the New Virtual World Order! (Visual courtesy: http://hebreaksthecedars.blogspot.in) The first time I encountered the word ‘troll’ was in high school. That year, we had to read JRR Tolkie...
Meanwhile, in the White House... 6 Jun 2012 | 04:20 am
Rick McKee is the staff cartoonist at The Augusta Chronicle. Nate Beeler is the award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Columbus Dispatch.
Shadow of nuclear Iran 6 Jun 2012 | 04:01 am
Israel has never been free of threats to its very existence. But never before has the Jewish state been so worried about the future. Rare, if any, has been the occasion when Israel has not been burde...
Shadow of nuclear Iran 6 Jun 2012 | 04:01 am
Israel has never been free of threats to its very existence. But never before has the Jewish state been so worried about the future. Rare, if any, has been the occasion when Israel has not been burde...
Baboos, bibis and the Bangals of Kolkata 6 Jun 2012 | 03:45 am
Kolkata may have been Calcutta before it was renamed Kolkata, but that did not mean the Empire's Second City had a homogenous society. There was, and still is (well, to an extent), north Calcutta/Kolk...
Moving on from The Pioneer 31 May 2012 | 04:39 am
My Second Innings Comes to an End. My long, rather very long, second innings with The Pioneer comes to an end on May 31. My first innings coincided with the years Vinod Mehta was Editor of the paper....
Gujarat denied what Maharashtra has 10 May 2012 | 06:50 am
And Congress wants States to wage war on terrorism! [Visual shows mayhem caused by serial bombings of July 26, 2008 serial bombings in Ahmedabad] Duplicity and distrust have become the twin hallmark...