The author is a senior journalist.
As the ‘official’ India seemingly observed silence with a smile, Indian media outlets, including the government-run Doordarshan, celebrated the “Indian origin” South African jurist Navanetham (Navi) Pillay, awarded the Nobel…
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Karnataka’s new Chief Minister D K Shivkumar is said to be worth Rs. 1400 crores and flaunts it in public with a Louis Vuitton scarf and a Cartier watch. The…
“India has a new political superstar – a cockroach,” screams a headline. “Let the cockroach be,” counsels a newspaper editorial. A third one notes, in seeming disbelief, that the ‘metamorphosis’ of…
As leaders of the United States and China met in Beijing last week for a ‘historic’ summit, not far away and not without their knowledge, South Asia is witnessing a…
If gaining independence in 1947 was India’s first coming, then the second was its economic reforms, launched in 1991-92; last week’s outcome of the four assembly elections can be called…
When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, an anguished Indian poet invoked the “Ma Nishada sloka,” the first verse (Adi Kavya) of Sanskrit literature, uttered spontaneously by Sage Valmiki in grief…
Nothing about the bride or groom matters, goes an Indian saying, if the priest performing the marriage is fed well. War in the drawing room via TV and social media…
How is India taking the Gulf War, taking place next door, but reverberating globally? The question can be asked of any country, but India is special, being the most populous…
