Agent Provocateur

By Kanchan Gupta W hat does it mean to celebrate Durga Puja in Rome? It means to be humiliated, harassed and hounded by city officials who h...

My Editor at The Pioneer , Chandan Mitra, disagrees with me on Twitter as the new platform for instant communications which could emerge as ...

By Kanchan Gupta The venerable Wall Street Journal , which still takes the business of journalism seriously, has carried an interesting news...

Goa’s BJP leader and former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is not given to making off-the-cuff remarks. He is a grassroots level activist w...

It won’t surprise me at all if Mr Shashi Tharoor is hopping mad at me. But for my question, asked without any malicious intent, he would not...

It’s been a great Monday for the BJP and the larger ideological Parivar. In Gujarat, the BJP has won five of the seven Assembly seats where ...

[Review article on Jaswant Singh’s book, Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence . It appears as a full-page in Sunday Pioneer . Photos are o...

[ For an expanded version, with insider details of Advani-Vajpayee and Advani-Jaswant relations, see my column Coffee Break in Sunday Pione...

“ A house divided against itself cannot stand. ” [Abraham Lincoln] A s the BJP’s central office-bearers and members of the so-called ‘core g...

Exposed: At least three raids on N-arsenal sites despite elite guards The world’s darkest fear – that jihadis will one day get to lay their...

Manmohan Singh's long-winded intervention on the Sharm el-Sheikh India-Pakistan joint statement debate in Lok Sabha has not answered imp...

What made PM crumble so abjectly? S hashi Tharoor may have been cavalier in describing the July 16 India-Pakistan joint statement, issued af...

So he compromises national interest; caves in to US arm-twisting; capitulates to Pakistani blackmail at Sharm el-Sheikh Prime Minister Manmo...

The Rasta and the Haredi Kanchan Gupta The Ticho House is where Jerusalem’s artists, writers, musicians and anybody else who qualifies as an...