Narendra Modi might like to ponder over what Archbishop Desmond Tutu had said two decades ago as an unimaginably racially divided South Africa debated the need for Truth and Reconciliation Commission

BY Smruti Koppikar 26 February 2012

HC orders police to register an FIR against Congress's Mumbai chief, leading to his resignation, vindicating Outlook's expose...

BY Smruti Koppikar 22 February 2012

The Municipal polls underline that Mumbai remains—or has returned to being—a saffron city, with Raj Thackeray emerging as the biggest gainer

BY Smruti Koppikar 20 February 2012

As Gujarat – and the nation – marks ten years of the horrific violence in Godhra and later across the state, and Modi completes his carefully-calibrated Sadbhavna mission in a bid to erase the 2002 blot, he finds the courts closing in on him and his

BY Smruti Koppikar 15 February 2012

Altogether, Mumbai has had too much politics; too little governance. The fight to have a political rally at Shivaji Park is another chapter in the continuing story

BY Smruti Koppikar 8 February 2012

Competitive identity politics demanding monuments and statues for icons by forcibly "occupying" government land gets a lashing for Maharashtra government from the Bombay High Court. But is anyone listening?

BY Smruti Koppikar 19 December 2011

Hazare's agitation was critical and timely. His basic demand to have the civil society suggestions in redrafting the Lokpal Bill was valid. But haven't we invested too little of ourselves in the battle and too much in one man?

BY Smruti Koppikar 12 April 2011

Does the Shiv Sena (A) Desire a memorial irrespective of its cost? (B) Not want a memorial at such an exorbitant cost? (C) Rubbish the very idea itself? or D) Believe that if there is to be Shivaji Memorial then it should be the sole karta-dharta?

BY Smruti Koppikar 5 October 2009

Two words the government should have paid heed to, but didn't. Instead, it farcically spent two full days figuring out the relevant law to shut down the city -- though it still hasn't been able to find one for the malls

BY Smruti Koppikar 12 August 2009

In the middle of celebrations over the 5.6 kilometre new stretch of concrete road, over the sea linking Bandra and Worli, it is hard to sound rational, let alone sceptical. But it is difficult to miss some obvious questions...

BY Smruti Koppikar 1 July 2009