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| Salvo in Kabul |
| Democracy will not alter Pakistan’s strategic designs |
| During a visit to Pakistan immediately after the Kargil conflict in 1999, I telephoned Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul, the outspoken former chief of the infamous Inter-Services Intelligence directorate. The good thing about Gul, I had been told by thos... |
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| Keep the faith |
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Sir — Critics have started questioning the credibility of M.S. Dhoni’s ‘youth brigade’ after Sri La ... |
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| GAME AND SET |
| Politics is nothing without power play. Either Manmohan Singh took his time to realize this or he deliberately played touch t...|
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| ANOTHER VISION |
| Saints, mystics and messiahs, in quite another age, were the ones to have ‘visions’. Today, only rich and powerful world lead...|
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| On The Wrong Foot |
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The Left finally withdrew its support from the United Progressive Alliance government. “The government has insulted us”, says... | Read.. |
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Why is it no one ever sent me yet/ One perfect limousine, do you suppose?/ Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get/ One perfect rose.
— DOROTHY PARKER
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| An examined life |
| Form is a secret, usually unacknowledged, problem in the composition of a biography... |
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