TN Ninan looks at how cities like Delhi and Bangalore are slowly but surely upstaging Mumbai as a centre of new business activity and laments at the loss to Mumbai from the short-sighted divisiveness of the Thackerays and their ilk. Here … [Read more...]
THE SIEGE WITHIN
November 26, 2009 By 9 Comments
-By Sanjay Jha I asked a few people in a small group who Ajmal Amir Kasab was. They looked at me in wonderment and surprise, even perceivable amusement as if saying----- “Are you a crazy lunatic guy, or what ?” I prodded them ,deliberately provocative, feigning the status of an ignoramus. Sighing with egregious exasperation, one of them said---“The captured terrorist who brutally massacred innocent commuters at CST railway terminus and slaughtered our valiant cops on the horrendous … [Read more...]
The Leak Debate’s A Decoy: Punish The Guilty
November 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Urges Siddharth Varadarajan in The Hindu … [Read more...]
On the Eve of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Visit to the USA
November 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
We feature an interview with Lally Weymouth of Newsweek/The Washington Post … [Read more...]
SWEET SUGAR AND SAIF
November 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
- By Sanjay Jha This week has been a media person’s delight; the David Headley conspiracy gathered intensity by involving Bollywood celebrities , Barack Obama’s confused diplomacy-take in China on Indo-Pak relations , sugar-cane farmer’s agitation and Sachin Tendulkar’s incredible cricketing journey . Of course, as far as Arnab Goswami of Times Now is concerned he would manage the superhuman feat of looking profusely agitated even if he were interviewing himself. On Times Now … [Read more...]
On Indira Gandhi’s 92nd Birthday, Some Abiding Memories
November 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
-By Rajeev Gowda Flashback One Way back in 1969, I was a young lad of six. Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister and Nijalingappa was the President of the All India Congress Committee. Suddenly, over a few days, there was a tremendous hubbub at home as my father and uncle went into political overdrive. The excitement, it turned out, was due to the election of the President of India. My uncle and father were totally with Indira Gandhi when she called for a conscience vote in favour of Vice … [Read more...]
More Memories of Indira Gandhi
November 18, 2009 By 1 Comment
Indira Gandhi would have been 92 tomorrow. On the eve of her birth anniversary, we showcase "high priest of design" Rajeev Sethi's reminiscences about his meetings with Indira Gandhi and her appreciation for Indian culture and heritage. This article appeared in Outlook in 2005. … [Read more...]
Sachin Tendulkar. Nothing else
November 17, 2009 By 1 Comment
- By Sanjay Jha 1999. It was a decade since his debut in international cricket. He had already become a global phenomenon. India had begun worshipping their national idol with spectacular unanimity -- a rare feat by itself. The World Cup tournament was underway, the biggest cricket show on earth. There was mounting euphoria and breathless anticipation all around as India had returned to their ground of renowned conquest of 1983 - England. India was considered a dangerous threat to reigning … [Read more...]
More on the Decline of Buddhababu
November 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dola Mitra, in Outlook provides a pithy overview of the rise and decline of Buddhababu and the Marxist hegemony in Bengal. … [Read more...]
Leadership “Style”
November 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Now for something completely different … some of India’s leading fashion designers reflect on how Jawaharlal Nehru set the trend even in the sartorial realm: According to designer Ritu Kumar, achkans are knee-length or longer coats of heavy brocade that were worn by the royalty in Lucknow. “Nehru started wearing them in khadi, with a white churidaar and always knee-length, and made them his trademark,” she says. n this context, one of us recalls a decades-old discussion with a … [Read more...]
