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Voted Out: When EC ghosts you before you reach the boothA voter in West Bengal found her name missing from the electoral rolls. She suspects this is part of a government effort to identify infilt...- Learning to giveNoble status bestows an unspoken responsibility to give. Wealth transcends mere inheritance; it is a bond with the community. Even those wi...
- The politics of prestige: Why the Nobel Prize still captivates those in powerA sharp satire on power and prestige, the piece imagines a US president’s comic obsession with winning a Nobel Prize, blending political pa...
- Why Barron Trump's handshake trumped oppositionGood manners seem like a quaint phrase in our casual times when social interactions between generations are not generally guided by many ru...
- View: Nessie, Yeti and those lovely lurking beasts can remythologise through mysteryCloser to home is the realm of the humanoid Yeti, the so-called Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, said to be a denizen of the high pinna...
- View: Can Covid shift our politics? It’s a national emergency now. Let it bring to an end our Age of HatredA curious political drama unfolded in four acts last week. The background was a sudden realisation that India, the world’s largest producer...
- Royals have their work cut outOf monarchs, mantrijis and other games of thrones.
- Ask Dr. D: Prince Andrew wants to know how he can escape the Jeffrey Epstein scandalDr. D gives Prince Andrew a much-needed reality check.
- Tongue firmly in cheek, here's reminding India why Gujaratis deserve a second chanceYou have a choice from across this vast and great nation, but think about this: who else can you possibly elect?
- How Winston Churchill, the war time hero failed in peaceIndian independence rode on a huge win for the British Labour Party in 1945, where Winston Churchill failed as a peace time politician.
- After crushing defeat, Congress needs a new politics beyond the Nehruvian consensusSonia Gandhi recently asserted — at a seminar to commemorate the 50th death anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru — that her party still reveres ...
- Banishing hunger via legislationAll parties have been competing with one another on extending the reach of the food Bill and on increasing the quantum and range of foods d...
- Indians treat their royalty better than the BritsWe, in India, tend to treat our royalty better than the British do theirs.
- A Hands-off approach is often bestA touchy-feely gambit can backfire on politicians if they are not temperamentally inclined towards it.
- Polity ticks for the royal lineEver since the latest twist in the tale of the Kachwahas from Jaipur turned the spotlight back on our ‘erstwhile’ royal families, most peop...
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