How Indira Gandhi started a trend by overturning the most inconvenient Supreme Court judgment of them all.
Jeeps are magical. Marvels of minimalism. The rough bumpy ride, the defiant thrumming, the toppled windshield, flapping canvas, sloshing jerry cans, wind in the hair, dust in the eyes, smouldering cheroot, Lawrence of Arabia, Clint Eastwood, James Dean, Yashpal Kapur…
Yashpal who?
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A lot of war analogies have been used to describe demonetisation. Here’s why it’s a failed campaign.
This is the second part of the five-part series on demonetisation.
Why do governments fail? Why are they blind? Or inefficient? It is because they are run by politicians, and politicians are corrupt.
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How much money do we need? Do we need money at all? Vivek Kaul’s Easy Money answers these questions & more.
Is The Hindu really breaking from tradition by bringing control of the paper back into the family fold?
“With The Hindu’s owners deciding to revert to being a family run and edited newspaper, I am resigning from The Hindu with immediate effect.”
– @svaradarajan, Oct 21, 2013
The recent Twitter resignation of Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of The Hindu, elicited passionate responses of more than 140 characters, most of them loose and many of them belonging to the extended Hindu family.
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Sanjay Jha, Rahul Pandita and Madhu Trehan play “Guess Who”.
Is AAP a Socialist party? Did Barkha Singh send goons to beat up Shazia?
Would the Vuvuzela – and not the Jhadoo – have been a better symbol for Arvind Kejriwal’s party?
Converting the natives with Aadharism. In Nandan they have a messiah.
Are Indian journalists too star-struck to ask the tough questions?
Why do our politicians overturn so many of our Supreme Court’s verdicts – out of public interest or self-interest?
Lutyens’ Bungalow Zone. Beautiful ministerial houses, assassination-tourism and more.
Exclusive. Feedback forms from politicians, based on which the Food Security Bill was drafted. Even Arvind Kejriwal was asked!
Why do our politicians overturn so many of our Supreme Court’s verdicts – out of public interest or self-interest?
A two-part journey into the abyss that is Safdarjung Hospital.
A two-part journey into the abyss that is Safdarjung Hospital.
Sibalomics, dodgy calculations and a country in economic morass. Is this India’s darkest hour before dawn?
Blimey! Is this really what Karan Thapar doodles during edit meetings at the PMO?
What debases a man so much that he begins to look at others as a statistic? Beyond semantics.
Are Gujaratis communal, bigoted, fascist merchants of death – as some opinion-makers suggest?
A review & a conversation with Kiran Rao.
The indications aren’t all that good. Flowing tresses and wild beards and Kissinger specs and Fabindia kurtas, and when Arundhati Roy saunters in I have to pinch my upper arm to make sure this isn’t an andolan or a Yojana Bhawan gherao.
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