Columns

Rahul_Gandhi_in_Ernakulam,_Kerala
Dilli Dur Ast for Congress

As the seasons change, there is a spring in the step of the Congress which…

Sachin_Tendulkar_drives_a_ball_2010
Remembering Sachin Tendulkar’s iconic Ranji Trophy debut

I had joined the Times of India in Mumbai in October 1988 and was struggling…

MS_Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is still not out

On his first foreign tour as an India A player to Kenya and Zimbabwe in…

Indian_Cricket_Player
Cricket is about merit not dynasty

This is a problem in all our political parties. Akhilesh Yadav is a dynast. Stalin…

Kerala needs a Narayan Guru, not a Yogi

Last Tuesday, the government of India seemed to temporarily shift its base to the BJP headquarters at Delhi’s Ashoka Road. A string of high profile Union ministers queued up for television interviews to protest Left violence against RSS cadres in Kerala. Forget economic slowdown, jobs, GST, Rohingyas or Kashmir: for a few hours at least, the BJP’s high-decibel Jan Raksha Yatra across Kerala took precedence, as the lines between party and government were blurred.

indian-rupees-518045_1280
Economy in Trouble but BJP still in pole position

One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s great skills is the ability to change the media…

38N9fEdC_400x400
Divided Media cannot provide justice to Gauri Lankesh

The year 1993 was Mumbai’s annus horribilis: The post-Babri demolition riots were followed by the…

India_-_Varanasi_-_1702
Where really is ‘new’ India?

One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s great skills as a political communicator has been his…

modinitish
Corruption and Communalism: No False Binary please!

“We are coming together to defend secularism by defeating Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and the…

Bengal, Kerala: the BJP’s last frontiers

When a few days ago, Delhi BJP leader Nupur Sharma tweeted pictures of the 2002…