The Budget session of the Parliament has ended. The members of Parliament are more or less off to their constituencies. Several would also perhaps be...

About a fortnight ago a good friend’s roommate met with a severe accident in Uttarakhand. Out on a bike expedition in the mountains, he fell into a...

The longtime-waiting heir to the Congress leadership, Rahul Gandhi, is back from ‘agyatwas’ (time spent incognito) and is doing everything possible to...

The unsettling images of the earthquake emanating from Nepal over the past four days has pushed to the background a video clip which quickly went...

In three decades, Indian politics has come a full circle. The party, which was once the torch bearer of development, today wants to be the pall-bearer...

Over the past few days, newspapers have been full of reports about how successive governments of post-Independent India kept a close eye on issues...

Another academic year is all set to begin. The ‘gup-shup’ during the morning walks in parks these days is focused on the concern of the parents whose...

The past few weeks have been bad for at least three former chiefs of staff of the armed services – Army, Navy and Air Force. In the case of the first,...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team of floor managers in both the Houses must have gone for recess in the on-going Budget session of Parliament...

Tucked away in the foothills of the mighty Himalayas is Dehradun, which was once an abode of retired Brown Sahibs and the home of leading boarding...

Ever since Anna Hazare plonked himself at Jantar Mantar in April 2011 to launch the anti-corruption agitation, I had no doubt that the whole movement...

He could achieve all this because he was an effective editor and more important he got well-meaning wealthy people to invest in his projects, which...