This Is Not Cricket... No One, However High And Mighty, Is Above The Law

Do not abuse the trust or faith of any sizeable section of citizens, even BR Ambedkar had warned the rulers,...

The Magic Tricked

With AAP’s win, the Modi-Shah monopoly stands challenged

Taking The Media By The Tail

The tigers of the media and the corporate world find themselves caught in the unsparing, irreverent gaze of...

The Raga Of Walking Away From A Fight

‘No fire in the belly’ and ‘no appetite for a political fight’—with a leader diagnosed thus, the...

Liberals, This Is The Time To Keep The Faith

It will take far more than a regime change to erase Nehru’s legacy

The Man Who Wasn’t There?

He reinstituted the value of inclusive growth and governance open to scrutiny. He institutionalised the voice...

One-Man Tea Party

The Modi campaign is a copycatting of US right-wing tactics

Imagining What Rahul Does Not Even Want To Imagine

It’s still possible for the Congress to reposition itself despite the dynastic clamps hampering it. But it...

He Has Been Chosen

Since 1991, India too is seeing what western democracies are facing: a standoff between the state and the...

See It Only In 3D: How The West Was Won

The Congress is left to count its gains; Modi’s success infuses a certain piquancy into the choices the NDA...

Arise, The King’s Men Are Here

A journalistic memoir is gimlet-eyed about the Emergency, but drools before a cabal of indifference and...

The Year When The Consensus Broke Down

The Folly Of Believing Your Own Hyperbole

A tall-talking, myopic, mulishly Jan Sanghi BJP is ripe for a fall

Scoops, And Vanishing Cream

A great reporter, Nayar is also a regular flouter of objectivity, and a prime circulator of bogus, juicy...

What If Advani, Not Vajpayee, Had Been PM?

Psesudo-patriotism would have defined the flawed and short-lived Advani regime. He would have replicated...

Deputy Sheriff's Badge

A dissection of State and civil society failures vis-a-vis Godhra