On Monday morning, when a former DMK MP texted a customary greeting to a party leader, he wasn’t expecting a reply. ‘Anna, how can it be a good morning?’ came the querulous retort, a little after 11.…

At 10 PM on 7 May, Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party, was at his constituency home in Doncaster, drafting a victory speech. Voting in Britain’s long awaited, deeply divisive, general election…

No man is an island, Entire of itself. —John Donne (1572-1631) Even if only a few Nepalese grumbled about Indian journalists during one of South Asia’s worst natural disasters, one complaint is one…

A Mumbai-based banker describes ICICI Bank Chairman Kundapur Vaman Kamath, who has been named the first president of the New Development Bank set up by BRICS countries, as ‘Switzerland’ for his…

Political outfits have a standard line for incidents of intimidation and violence: ‘These acts are condemnable.’ But when such events make their own socio-political position untenable, they add the…

If anyone in India decided to do a Game Of Thrones in a modern context, the BCCI would be the stage to set the characters. Friends here turn enemies within a blink, unexpected people suddenly become…

The world’s most wanted man, responsible for one of the worst terror attacks in world history, was caught and killed four years ago in a night raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by a group of US Navy…

Whatever the intent of the Government, some of the changes the Union Cabinet has approved for India’s Child Labour Act could prove counter- productive. While it has approved a ban on employment of…

Arvind Kejriwal is a leader full of surprises, and, in recent times, not always pleasant. For a man who is said to have begun his political career by courting the Indian media, it is ironic that his…

Bangladesh may have been established as a secular country, but over the last few decades, an exceptionally virulent strain of religious fundamentalism has come to the fore. The country’s politics is…