Barkha Dutt

Has the middle class, shaken at last by 26/11, learnt anything?

This socio-historical travel along the Indus's entire length is anchored in grittiness, and marred by persistent wonder

Friends are a now core part of the family's sheltering umbrella

Television tells stories in real time. In telling them, it changes their course.

Maybe we have no 'religion worth talking about'. Time to reclaim our inheritance?

It has become Everywoman's narrative. The sexual abuse of women has been so public, victims will talk to anyone who'll listen.

What's so spontaneous about an attack that leaves only the seventh shop on a crowded street burnt down?

We came to treat such instance of harassment and abuse as the rites of passage of growing up female in India...

He was anything but controlled as he held forth on how the present government of Iraq has no credibility anywhere, Saddam's support for Emergency, bemoaned the break-up of the USSR, rubbished the previous government running after Strobe Talbott and h