The Price of Life
Here’s an evocative real-life account of the survivors during the partition, in 1947. A little lad was celebrating the survival of his mother and him, dancing the Bhangra –...
The Chai that Cheers: The Inside Story
Ruchira tells us the story of tea. She traces the antiquity of this wonder drink and how it spread to other parts of the world. Read more in the...
Jambo: Welcome to the Endless Grasslands
We drove on through the Ngorang Ngora highlands and into the Savannah, where the great animal migration was gathering steam. We encountered thousands of herbivores from the gigantic giraffe...
2019 Election Launch Pad of BJP is Out
Arun Shourie, like one BJP spokesperson says, is cursed with “too many grey cells for his own good” – he loses himself in the labyrinth. What to make of...
Why is Arun Jaitley Wrong on Petrol Tax?
The Narendra Modi government’s oil policy has been so convoluted that it punishes the consumers when international crude oil prices move both ways. When prices go up, the dynamic...
Pranab Strikes Big Bang, Congress Hits Black Hole
Pranab Mukherjee did not have to “die first” to go back in time to retell history. He’s 82 and in his memory-cache there is enough of reading of history...
Manmohan Singh was a Real Reformer with Innovative Policies
Manmohan Singh enlivened the service sector by ceding several tax concessions. Software companies sprang up, placing the country a pivot for global software exports. Notwithstanding Modi’s slow pace in...
GDP Growth Looking Up, But Serious Problems Remain
The high growth does not reflect the whole story. There is significant jobless growth. Only 8 lakh new jobs have been created against the requirement of nearly 50 lakhs...
Humbled Modi-Shah Duo on Survival Strategy
The emergence of the new Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka after BJP’s failed manoeuvre to form a government without the numbers, depending on the Governor’s patronage, has given an impetus...
India is the Second Most Unequal Country, Globally
New World Wealth, a Johannesburg-based company, published a report where it claimed that India is the second-most unequal country in the world, with millionaires controlling 54 percent of the...