AAP's leadership has shown exemplary courage in its choice of representatives. Consider the troika of Medha Patkar, Soni Sori and S.P. Udayakumar...

BY Venu Madhav Govindu 8 April 2014

While the government has finally declared that it does not want to press sedition charges against Arundhati Roy or Geelani, the threat of arrest for dissent is an affront to India’s democratic values

BY Venu Madhav Govindu 27 October 2010

The seller of the Gandhi items now wants them back. Amidst the welter of confusion that surrounds this entire episode, one wonders what the Mahatma himself would have made of it.

BY Venu Madhav Govindu 16 March 2009

The elections are here. And despite the rhetoric, the NDA and UPA regimes remain virtually indistinguishable in their repudiation of the swadeshi ideal. But the political class alone is not to blame. Take the Nano car...

BY Venu Madhav Govindu 3 March 2009

He was much more than a secretary to Gandhi. On various occasions he has been described as Gandhi's Boswell, a Plato to Gandhi's Socrates, as well as an Ananda to Gandhi's Buddha-- his relationship with Gandhi is a taxonomic puzzle.

BY Venu Madhav Govindu 14 August 2008

Many current practices are relatively modern and rarely entirely indigenous. The foreign origins of coffee is bad enough but one can really ruin a Tamilian's breakfast by quoting the very convincing conjecture of food historian K T Achaya that the s

BY Venu Madhav Govindu 3 March 2004

Are we to believe that we can feather our nest by any means, even if it meant oppressing other people in the same manner as we were in the not so distant past?

BY Venu Madhav Govindu 10 July 2003