To describe the state of affairs in India, no expression can be more appropriate than the term 'psephocracy', coined by sociologist Ashis Nandy. It is...

Every age has its trademark way of making big bucks on the side. In the Indira Gandhi years, it was smuggling of practically everything, thanks to the...

It is indeed typical of India, where even the most profligate of men chant verses of the Gita as a morning ritual, to have got its top businessmen to...

Intelligence officers are usually drab people not much given to disclosing secrets in public, least of all big-time secrets involving the nation’s...

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has reached a stage in her career when one says auf wiedersehen and moves on. She has declared that she’d...

Is it Pranab Mukherjee, the Congress 'troubleshooter'? Or Hamid Ansari, the closet Leftist? Or a mystery name, a card held so close to the chest by...

It came as an unexpected relief, like a cool thundershower at the end of a searing day. On a recent Sunday evening, as I was ready to watch a much...