Agent Provocateur

We really don’t need tax-funded babus to promote Hindi or protect India’s official language from Macaulay Putras. What we need is to focus...

A new study, conducted for the Planning Commission, explains in detail how Gujarat has facilitated the growth of micro, small and medium en...

May more women find themselves as privileged as Priyanka Vadra. May their husbands get to bypass airport security on account of their wiv...

You need neither a degree from Harvard University nor ‘animal spirit’ to get the Indian economy going. What you need is common sense and ...

A response to Salil Tripathi - II Facts are sacred; comment is free. In his column ‘Here, There, Everywhere’, published in Mint under the h...

Slogans are no solution Last Sunday, in my weekly column, Coffee Break , I argued the case for radical reforms over an all-powerful sup...

Mercy petitions can't be decided by Pratibha Patil's 'religious beliefs' The President of the Republic of India is not the h...

... and India was Indira! Recalling Mrs Gandhi's Emergency, 1975-77 It would be an exaggeration to suggest, as was done by a critic of t...

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (1923-2010) Rajasthan ro ek hi singh, Bhairon Singh, Bhairon Singh! Out there in the desert, it was a colourful sigh...

And while St Peter's thieves debate... ( ELP, Works, Vol 1 ) S o, IPL is not only about adrenaline-pumping cricket! Here are some stati...

Of probity and provincialism Nobody who is caught with his hand in the till ever admits to his guilt till proven guilty in a court of law; a...

The following is the text of my speech at the India-China Development Forum in Beijing on March 30, 2010: Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen...