M.J. Akbar
This is the first time that a national party’s campaign has stepped into that erogenous zone of politics called wit.
Updated 11 Apr, 2014 01:47pm
After nearly four decades we have a politician who has promised to send Indian journalists to jail in large numbers.
Updated 11 Apr, 2014 01:49pm
DONALD Rumsfeld, who was America’s defence secretary during the Iraq war, pointed out that you fight with the army...
Published 09 Mar, 2014 08:45am
THE news item flickered warily somewhere in the middle of NBC’s morning bulletin on Friday. A dead man had come...
Published 02 Mar, 2014 07:19am
THERE will be a 30th state in the Union of India. The 29th, Telangana, is not the last post in the reorganisation of...
Published 23 Feb, 2014 08:17am
ARVIND Kejriwal could not stand the heat so he got out of the kitchen. As a means of self-preservation, this is...
Published 16 Feb, 2014 08:15am
WHY, and when, does a politician defect? The simplistic, but not all that simple, answer is money. We have good...
Published 09 Feb, 2014 07:42am
BETWEEN a story and the reason for it, there often falls a shadow. The news item, published in a Marathi newspaper,...
Published 02 Feb, 2014 08:06am
EVERY electorate may or may not get the government it deserves. Voters can fall for a bluff: if they did not believe...
Published 26 Jan, 2014 07:40am
ANY political party that rises from street turmoil must of necessity reflect the varied character of its origins....
Published 19 Jan, 2014 07:57am
NOSTALGIA is not very good news for the nostalgic. The elegy of age lies a layer below the surface, trying hard but...
Published 12 Jan, 2014 09:48am
NOSTALGIA is not very good news for the nostalgic. The elegy of age lies a layer below the surface, trying hard but...
Published 12 Jan, 2014 07:42am
THE one person who does not seem unduly bothered about what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will do once he fades into...
Published 05 Jan, 2014 07:33am
THE sense of an ending — a phrase borrowed from the title of Julian Barnes’ moving book — inevitably breeds...
Published 29 Dec, 2013 08:10am
WHEN the incredible litany of silly reasons for great events is written, top billing must surely go to this ...
Published 22 Dec, 2013 08:04am
In the great toss-up between perception and evidence, the former generally wins. Conventional wisdom, for instance,...
Published 19 Dec, 2013 11:13am
NO penalty points if you have never heard of a certain Henry Glapthorn. After all, he lived some three and a half...
Published 15 Dec, 2013 08:38am
IS Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron an unabashed hypocrite, or is he merely another Conservative politician?...
Published 08 Dec, 2013 08:22am
THE yin and yang of the current fighting season in Indian democracy is at eye level, but perhaps just below the ...
Published 01 Dec, 2013 08:57am
SACHIN Tendulkar was 10 years old when in 1983 Indian cricket suddenly, even inexplicably, turned into a sky-bound...
Updated 24 Nov, 2013 10:08am
