Congress planning to lose its hold on Karnataka, too? With boldness (not National Herald) it can win

Even in its glory days, the National Herald never had a South Indian presence. It was always a Delhi-Lucknow entity and knew it. 

22 Jun 2017

Modi’s vision has a target year, exactly same as Xi’s; but Modi’s foot soldiers pursue other targets

Miracles never cease.

19 Mar 2017

Winners cheer, losers sulk, but what real difference do elections make to our anarchic democracy?

This is a loner’s lament when more than half the country is rejoicing over the BJP’s overwhelming triumph in UP.

12 Mar 2017

Should the gods be cheaper than a luxury bungalow, cost less than a wedding ? A tale of emperors

K Chandrasekhar Rao is without doubt the most devout chief minister in the country today.

05 Mar 2017

Akhilesh jumps over dynasty, gives UP new horizons; alas, Rahul can do no such thing in Congress

It’s an unusually long wait for Uttar Pradesh election results.

26 Feb 2017

As Rahul Gandhi drives S M Krishna out of Congress, issues of morality, bankruptcy and dilemmas surface

There is a tragic inevitability about the doom of the Congress party.

19 Feb 2017

Defying possible peace in Syria, defying Russia, Trump brings the world to the brink of war

Iran is no longer the weak polity that America needled in the George Bush years.

12 Feb 2017

How come Jaitley’s imaginative Budget left a slot for anonymous black money to thrive?

How predictable we are! Come rain or sunshine, we evaluate budgets strictly along party lines.

05 Feb 2017

News, when true, wasn’t truth. But news that is untrue is taken as truth today. Is anybody safe?

What’s happening to news, that precious information source that has kept the world ticking for ages? News has now turned into a weapon of destruction.

29 Jan 2017

Those who do not think of other people’s opinions live in bubbles. Was Obama talking of India ?

If sloganeering characterised President Donald Trump’s inaugural address, sagacity marked Barack Obama’s farewell address a week earlier.

22 Jan 2017

India, pre-occupied at home, is losing ground abroad; China, alert and pro-active, is gaining all around

Pre-occupied as we are with unprecedented internal schisms, setbacks in our external relations have not caught public attention.

15 Jan 2017

Politicians, not only in UP, think they are forever; refusing to retire, they cripple us for their ego

Uttar Pradesh is only a vicious example of a curse that plagues India—politicians’ refusal to retire. Politicians want power, fair enough.

08 Jan 2017

Today is new year’s day, says the West. Others agree. How the power of marketing controls the world

Happy New Year! On second thoughts, why? In half the world January 1 is not the day on which a new year starts.

01 Jan 2017

The cash mess. Changing goalposts, new exemptions raise doubts about the government’s intentions

In the wake of the demonetisation tsunami, our Prime Minister asked for a 50-day grace period. That period ends this week,

25 Dec 2016

Dangers of using religion as a political weapon. It is a problem that plagues others as well

The country yearns for a national leadership that can shore up unity imperilled by burgeoning identity politics. Dangerously, identity politics is the politics of division that undermines the shared a

18 Dec 2016

Aayirathil Oruval. one in a thousand women, Jaya achieved greatness against tremendous odds

Politics consumed Jayalalithaa so comprehensively that the human side in her remained invisible most of the time.

11 Dec 2016

Demonetisation can only go so far. To go further, politics that backs black money must change

04 Dec 2016

A non-conformist, original ‘Krishna with the flute’ who made the singer larger than the song

What made Balamuralikrishna so different that his demise, which cannot be considered untimely at the age of 85, has created a rare sense of loss not just among classical music afficianados but a wider

27 Nov 2016

How far can religion/caste calculations take us? It’s sad that secularism is now a bad word

20 Nov 2016

As jaw-droppers and nerve-wrackers hit the people, will rupee finally win? Will Trump triumph?

13 Nov 2016

If Trump wins, it means trouble. If Hillary wins, it means another kind of trouble. Some choice!

06 Nov 2016

When violence, hatred and conflicts surround us, quotable quotes give us comfort and hope

30 Oct 2016

The congress, bent on suicide, lost Kerala first.  Now It’s Losing Karnataka for a flyover

23 Oct 2016

PM said no chest-thumping, but election planners ignore that sound advice, and it's not a good omen

16 Oct 2016

Artists do not die because the world needs art; Arakkal gave us pleasure by painting pain

09 Oct 2016

A new america faces a new cultural revolution; trump reflects world's shift to intolerance

01 Oct 2016

Pakistan poses problems too serious to be left to jingoist TV anchors and sangh parivar hawks

25 Sep 2016

Can there be an India with state fighting state? Language destroyed a culture in Babylon

18 Sep 2016

Aam Aadmi turns into harm Aadmi, then to damn Aadmi. yet another chance of clean politics gone

11 Sep 2016

Should making friends also mean making enemies? New challenges as the non-alignment era ends

04 Sep 2016

Is India rising? What are the new hopes, new fears? A reporter's account makes for a readable story

28 Aug 2016

Who said India cut a sorry figure at the Olympics? no other country had VIPs winning medals

21 Aug 2016

World war iii over India's most polarising animal? the prime minister can win it. and he must

14 Aug 2016

A new kind of lawyers want a new kind of rights: the right to abuse judges, beat up reporters

07 Aug 2016