Profile of Manohar Singh Gill
If only the Kashmir imbroglio would end, India, Pakistan, as well as the two Punjabs would see tremendous growth benefiting everyone.
The sky is brassy, the trees, the birds and even the monkeys from Raisina Hill who regularly traipse through my garden, long for water to moisten their parched throats
Rural Punjab retains its spirit and inventiveness; the Sutlej is another story
Ashish Bose considers population issues, and has equal time for both prominent and humble—a true demographer
One continuous crowded hill with vehicles, crowds, noise and anything but the lovely Kipling’s Shimla...
I am impressed with what Sujit Saraf, from IIT and Berkeley, has achieved in this book.
Bangladesh’s development story surprised me. The figures given by our embassy were impressive; a growth rate of 6.9 per cent and, what is more, a population replacement of only 1.2...
When we went to the Shivpuri jungle in 1950, daaku Maan Singh was the great Robin Hood of India. He was a romantic figure...
The Chandigarh of Nehru and Corbusier has almost become a curiosity for a stream of visitors from the West who continue to see him as a giant of 20th century architecture.
As the Shatabdi wended its way south, we passed a continuous landscape of dusty fields with dispirited men and cattle, all wandering in search of food and water.
India-Pakistan cricket fed a chauvinist imperative for decades. The liberal wind in the willows changed all that.
Empire's marionette, Duleep Singh could only align his life with an idle absurdity
Republic Day was always long on ceremony, now it's short on grace too
Only Sir Edmund Hillary could have worn greatness with such casual aplomb
The 'outsider' analysis has value, but a wariness of messy democracy lurks in his prescriptions
Meticulously researched and produced, it gives the entire history of India's one-day matches. This will be manna for all schoolboys