A Snapshot in Time
February 8, 2012trains, tracks, and snow look best in black and white. Landquart Station, the view of the Alps, just behind the trains …
Crisis must not change India’s course – FT.com
February 8, 2012Thoughtful Indian observers are well aware that the principal obstacles to rapid economic development are internal, not external. Among obvious constraints are failures of governance, including wasteful spending on subsidies at all levels of government, a dire record on the provision of…
View from Davos: West remains upbeat about India
February 6, 2012My column in today’s DNA High in the Swiss Alps is the little city ofDavos. The highest city inEuropeit is a cold, snowed in place that was known best for its great ski holidays. It has around 12,000 inhabitants, most of whom…
Meet Mahadeo Shivgan – Mumbai First
February 5, 2012Mahadev Shivgan is one of the Candidates fighting the BMC elections from ward 143 in Chembur. He represents the BJP and is part of the SS-BJP alliance. He is also one of the few candidates who is neither a builder nor…
Mumbai, BMC, Mumbaikars & Mumbai First
February 5, 2012The elections for Local Self Government, IMHO, is possibly the elections that has the most impact on our everyday life. The elected represented is responsible and accountable for a lot of things from good roads, to water supply, to public schooling in the ward,…
Dear India Today – Anglicans are not Catholics
February 5, 2012Dear M.J.Akbar you are one of the most erudite, well-informed, knowledgeable, well read people in Indian journalism. So how does a magazine that you edit, put out stuff like this you need to tell whoever wrote that headline that all Christians are not…
Cute ….
February 4, 2012Someone has either a fantastic sense of humour or oversight 😀 am so glad that i have given up watching news TV – what verbal diarrhoea, what speculation, and what fiction… and, this isn’t an anti -NDTV rant. in fact it was…
The ToI – Too Sexy for its readers :D
February 2, 2012If you belonged to a certain generation, as I do, this was possibly the song you danced to, in college. British Band ‘Right Said Fred’ having a bit of fun with “I am too sexy” … Someone at the Times of India…
(Un)reasonable curbs on free speech
February 2, 2012My column appeared in the DNA on Republic Day rather appropriately (it usually appears on a Monday) :D. It deals with the issue of reasonable restrictions on free speech & the 1st amendment to the Indian Consititution that possibly needs to be…
Conversations in Davos at the IndiaAdda with the IBEF
January 28, 2012Ok. I am in Davos, where temperatures are sub zero, the world is covered with layers of snow and you can feel your teeth and eye lashes freeze. I am actually sure that my hair is frozen (yes, i know hair cannot…