M.J. Akbar

Not very intelligent, Mr Chidambaram

Calm down, everyone. Relax. Our invaluable Home Minister P. Chidambaram has finally found the answer to terrorism. Indeed, he did so on 13 July,...

Not very intelligent, Mr Chidambaram

Calm down, everyone. Relax. Our invaluable Home Minister P. Chidambaram has finally found the answer to terrorism. Indeed, he did so on 13 July,...

Not very intelligent, Mr Chidambaram

Calm down, everyone. Relax. Our invaluable Home Minister P. Chidambaram has finally found the answer to terrorism. Indeed, he did so on 13 July,...

Be a sport, let go of sports

Praful Patel had a good point to make. "If such a Bill is passed," the former Union minister for civil aviation and present Union...

Be a sport, let go of sports

Praful Patel had a good point to make. "If such a Bill is passed," the former Union minister for civil aviation and present Union...

Be a sport, let go of sports

Praful Patel had a good point to make. "If such a Bill is passed," the former Union minister for civil aviation and present Union...

A cancer at the heart of democracy

There is an eminently logical reason why the corruption debate reels like a drunk bounced out for being too disorderly even for a high-consumption...

A cancer at the heart of democracy

There is an eminently logical reason why the corruption debate reels like a drunk bounced out for being too disorderly even for a high-consumption...

A cancer at the heart of democracy

There is an eminently logical reason why the corruption debate reels like a drunk bounced out for being too disorderly even for a high-consumption...

When power outstrips ability

 The eloquence of Jawaharlal Nehru at the approach of the midnight hour of 15 August 1947 was so magnificent that it has overwhelmed the...

When power outstrips ability

 The eloquence of Jawaharlal Nehru at the approach of the midnight hour of 15 August 1947 was so magnificent that it has overwhelmed the...

When power outstrips ability

 The eloquence of Jawaharlal Nehru at the approach of the midnight hour of 15 August 1947 was so magnificent that it has overwhelmed the...

Goodbye, Sir!

Every childhood hero takes away a little bit of one's life along with him when he dies. Shammi Kapoor filled those wondrously difficult years...

Goodbye, Sir!

Every childhood hero takes away a little bit of one's life along with him when he dies. Shammi Kapoor filled those wondrously difficult years...

Goodbye, Sir!

Every childhood hero takes away a little bit of one's life along with him when he dies. Shammi Kapoor filled those wondrously difficult years...

Now, freedom from some Indians please

We lost the central hinge of the plot on 15 August 1947. We thought that raising the tricolour over Edwina and Lord Louis Mountbatten's palace...

Now, freedom from some Indians please

We lost the central hinge of the plot on 15 August 1947. We thought that raising the tricolour over Edwina and Lord Louis Mountbatten's palace...

Now, freedom from some Indians please

We lost the central hinge of the plot on 15 August 1947. We thought that raising the tricolour over Edwina and Lord Louis Mountbatten's palace...

Note to Caesar: Mark this Antony

Unqualified, unmitigated congratulations to All India Radio. The government's official broadcaster was not fooled by a mere communiqué from the All India Congress Committee,...

Note to Caesar: Mark this Antony

Unqualified, unmitigated congratulations to All India Radio. The government's official broadcaster was not fooled by a mere communiqué from the All India Congress Committee,...

Note to Caesar: Mark this Antony

Unqualified, unmitigated congratulations to All India Radio. The government's official broadcaster was not fooled by a mere communiqué from the All India Congress Committee,...

The power of the small story

The big picture generates understandable excitement. Sholay will always get more hype than an "art movie", as state-funded cinema used to be called in...

The power of the small story

The big picture generates understandable excitement. Sholay will always get more hype than an "art movie", as state-funded cinema used to be called in...

The power of the small story

The big picture generates understandable excitement. Sholay will always get more hype than an "art movie", as state-funded cinema used to be called in...

Dream come true, or perhaps not

The little patch of London I encounter is watching cricket and talking Rupert Murdoch. The colour of language matches the English sky; grey, rather...

Dream come true, or perhaps not

The little patch of London I encounter is watching cricket and talking Rupert Murdoch. The colour of language matches the English sky; grey, rather...

Dream come true, or perhaps not

The little patch of London I encounter is watching cricket and talking Rupert Murdoch. The colour of language matches the English sky; grey, rather...

The Criminal and the Callous

There is no category of criminals as brutish and barbaric as terrorists. The depravity of their intention is matched only by the perversity of...

The Criminal and the Callous

There is no category of criminals as brutish and barbaric as terrorists. The depravity of their intention is matched only by the perversity of...

The Criminal and the Callous

There is no category of criminals as brutish and barbaric as terrorists. The depravity of their intention is matched only by the perversity of...

The high price of being a friend

In a curious surge of counterintuitive energy, the Congress has in the last two years managed to revive the BJP and either destroy or...

The high price of being a friend

In a curious surge of counterintuitive energy, the Congress has in the last two years managed to revive the BJP and either destroy or...

The high price of being a friend

In a curious surge of counterintuitive energy, the Congress has in the last two years managed to revive the BJP and either destroy or...

A spring in Arab history

Ibn Khaldun, the classical Arab historian, ascribed, in his majestic work Muqaddimah, the great revival of the Arab spirit to "asabiya", a term that...

A spring in Arab history

Ibn Khaldun, the classical Arab historian, ascribed, in his majestic work Muqaddimah, the great revival of the Arab spirit to "asabiya", a term that...

A spring in Arab history

Ibn Khaldun, the classical Arab historian, ascribed, in his majestic work Muqaddimah, the great revival of the Arab spirit to "asabiya", a term that...

The Chewing Gum War

Collateral damage is surely the most unhappy consequence of this tragic business called war. There you are, quietly preparing the day's propaganda sheet in...

The Chewing Gum War

Collateral damage is surely the most unhappy consequence of this tragic business called war. There you are, quietly preparing the day's propaganda sheet in...

The Chewing Gum War

Collateral damage is surely the most unhappy consequence of this tragic business called war. There you are, quietly preparing the day's propaganda sheet in...

Silence, or bluster, is not an answer

We need to lay out the sequence if we want to assess the consequence.In the 12 June 2011 issue of The Sunday Guardian our...

Silence, or bluster, is not an answer

We need to lay out the sequence if we want to assess the consequence.In the 12 June 2011 issue of The Sunday Guardian our...

Silence, or bluster, is not an answer

We need to lay out the sequence if we want to assess the consequence.In the 12 June 2011 issue of The Sunday Guardian our...

Lost between bail and bailout

If the final fatality of this summer of suicides happens to be Dr Manmohan Singh's government, some intrepid, future historian of Congress affairs could...

Lost between bail and bailout

If the final fatality of this summer of suicides happens to be Dr Manmohan Singh's government, some intrepid, future historian of Congress affairs could...

Lost between bail and bailout

If the final fatality of this summer of suicides happens to be Dr Manmohan Singh's government, some intrepid, future historian of Congress affairs could...

Many degrees of separation

Uncertainty is the chaotic force-multiplier of insecurity. That is the only explanation, if there is one, for a curious statement made by Pakistan's Prime...

Many degrees of separation

Uncertainty is the chaotic force-multiplier of insecurity. That is the only explanation, if there is one, for a curious statement made by Pakistan's Prime...

Many degrees of separation

Uncertainty is the chaotic force-multiplier of insecurity. That is the only explanation, if there is one, for a curious statement made by Pakistan's Prime...

Claim Game, Blame Game

When is a man at his most generous? When he wants to forgive himself, of course. Home Minister P. Chidambaram is in need of...

Claim Game, Blame Game

When is a man at his most generous? When he wants to forgive himself, of course. Home Minister P. Chidambaram is in need of...

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