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I Mean What I SayMathrubhumi English |
As if a spluttering economy, the highest unemployment figures ever recorded and a massive farmers’ agitation besieging the nation’s capital last...
In my last column, I spoke about the clash between Mr Modi’s “New India” and the values of the “Old India” that people like me are accused...
When our nation goes to polls over the next two months, Indians will be making a choice between two very different ideas of India. On one hand, there...
As elections loom, one thing has been clear for some time: our government is great at rhetoric, hopeless at the delivery of public services and the...
With both Houses of Parliament adjourned sine die on Saturday, February 10, one more five-year term in the annals of India’s parliamentary democracy...
On January 30, we again mourned, as we have for seventy-six years, the assassination in 1948 of the Father of the Nation. At the present time, Mahatma...
With just a week to go for the inauguration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya -- which is being built up by the ruling party and Hindutva activists as one...
Everyone reading this uses – or at least has used – the postal service. Mailing letters, sending parcels, greeting the neighbourhood postman (and...
As the Ram Mandir inauguration commands the headlines next month, one of the unnecessary debates that will arise before the forthcoming general...
Henry Kissinger, a man whose life was extraordinary by any definition, and whose career and policies were both 'pivotal' and 'polarising', as a BBC...
For the first seventeen years of India's independence, the paradox-ridden Jawaharlal Nehru - a moody, idealist intellectual who felt an almost...
For the last 25 days, the world has been witnessing one of the worst human rights tragedies in recent times. Thousands of people, including a large...
Soon after he was elected Prime Minister in 2014, Narendra Modi made a speech about the need to make it easier to do business in India. He deplored...
Today marks the 154th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth, and our media will be filled with encomia for one of India’s greatest sons, the man...
India has just won the Asia Cup, in a stunningly one-sided final. Now the Australians are arriving on our shores and the World Cups. Cricket fever has...