Karan Thapar

Genial, humble and a democrat. Such is the picture of Atal Behari Vajpayee seen in Karan Thapar’s memoir.

A book that falls well short of the expectations one has of the author and journalist

"I'd have loved to be..." A column on the alternate aspirations of celebrities

Forster was able to detect a trend that has, 50 years later, become an undeniable fact. We speak it increasingly badly.

Our celebrity round-up of places where they live.

The finance minister on the fiscal deficit, Telangana, Parliament's behaviour, Rajiv Gandhi's killers, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, Congress prospects and Narendra Modi's majoritarianism and 'I, me, mine'

Lord Mountbatten's daughter says her mother shared a very deep love with Pandit Nehru. 'Now days everybody assumes that it has to be a carnal love, but you can have just as deep an emotional love with two like souls'

'I think India's case is very well understood, India's case is very well appreciated. And the whole international community is with us in condemning terrorism and especially cross-border terrorism.'

Excerpts from SABe TV programme Line of Fire where the Vishwa Hindu Parishad Preisdent expressed 'pity and sympathy' towards his bachelor colleagues in the Sangh Parivar 'who have never experienced sex'.

Transcript of Televison Talk Show Court Martial broadcast on SAB TV  where the foreign secretary, recently in the news for his hard-hitting views on Indo-US relations spoke extensively on Indian foreign policy.