It must count as one of the most memorable messages ever to finish a war. As he entered Dhaka on the morning of 16 December 1971,…
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The best way to describe the current state of the Manmohan Singh government is the way the journalist Martin Johnson analysed the England cricket team of…
In 1996, when there were still considerable fears about the future of economic reform and western investors were flocking to management gurus to brush up on…
In October 2009, Open magazine ran a cover story with the title ‘Will the Congress rule for the next 20 years?’ The Congress had just won…
Back in the 1970s, Willie Whitelow, who later became Margaret Thatcher’s deputy prime minister, famously responded to a crisis in the then Labour government by tut-tutting…
In the foyer of the magnificent Musee D’Orsay in Paris hangs a telling painting by the nineteenth century French artist Thomas Couture. Titled ‘The Romans during…
Absurdness comes in various forms. In the stratified levels of the uniformed bureaucracy it seems to come in the form of a birth day, or more…
For those of us who are pained by the terrible politicisation of Indian sport, it’s lack of professional management and its permanent strangulation by power-brokers of…
Among the litany of mistakes that have littered the Congress’ path around the crisis it finds itself in now, two structural ones stand out for special…
Whatever Baba Ramdev’s faults, his unrelenting desire for publicity has turned out to be a lightening rod that has exposed in sharper relief some of the…
