M.J. Akbar, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

The revenge of the samosa

There is no retribution harsher in politics than the revenge of the samosa. Every politician knows this much. The surprise is that Bihar Chief...

The revenge of the samosa

There is no retribution harsher in politics than the revenge of the samosa. Every politician knows this much. The surprise is that Bihar Chief...

A cricketer and a gentleman

There is no better way to bring in a new year than to cheer a man who can be honest about himself without slipping...

A cricketer and a gentleman

There is no better way to bring in a new year than to cheer a man who can be honest about himself without slipping...

A cricketer and a gentleman

There is no better way to bring in a new year than to cheer a man who can be honest about himself without slipping...

At Odds with Ends

A curious role reversal seized Parliament for much of last year, resulting in apoplectic fits that bode ill for the health of the institution....

At Odds with Ends

A curious role reversal seized Parliament for much of last year, resulting in apoplectic fits that bode ill for the health of the institution....

At Odds with Ends

A curious role reversal seized Parliament for much of last year, resulting in apoplectic fits that bode ill for the health of the institution....

Bonhomie in Lahore transforms the climate

History, sometimes, seems to be an accumulation of moments. Few have been as spectacular as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to “drop by” and...

Bonhomie in Lahore transforms the climate

History, sometimes, seems to be an accumulation of moments. Few have been as spectacular as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to “drop by” and...

Bonhomie in Lahore transforms the climate

History, sometimes, seems to be an accumulation of moments. Few have been as spectacular as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to “drop by” and...

A cloudburst out of thin air

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s outburst against the Union government after CBI raided the offices of a member of his personal staff can be...

A cloudburst out of thin air

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s outburst against the Union government after CBI raided the offices of a member of his personal staff can be...

A cloudburst out of thin air

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s outburst against the Union government after CBI raided the offices of a member of his personal staff can be...

Bluff is not course correction

The bizarre is not as distant from our political discourse as we might wish it to be. There are times, however, when a party’s...

Bluff is not course correction

The bizarre is not as distant from our political discourse as we might wish it to be. There are times, however, when a party’s...

Bluff is not course correction

The bizarre is not as distant from our political discourse as we might wish it to be. There are times, however, when a party’s...

Future of cricket might lie in hockey

There is only one sensible solution to the festering stalemate swamping India-Pakistan cricket: make the game so utterly boring that no one cares. We...

Future of cricket might lie in hockey

There is only one sensible solution to the festering stalemate swamping India-Pakistan cricket: make the game so utterly boring that no one cares. We...

Future of cricket might lie in hockey

There is only one sensible solution to the festering stalemate swamping India-Pakistan cricket: make the game so utterly boring that no one cares. We...

Terror is terror: Stop the game of alibis

The terrorist assault on cities began in Mumbai: not Mumbai 2008, but Mumbai 1993. A series of coordinated bomb blasts in February 1993 had...

Terror is terror: Stop the game of alibis

The terrorist assault on cities began in Mumbai: not Mumbai 2008, but Mumbai 1993. A series of coordinated bomb blasts in February 1993 had...

Terror is terror: Stop the game of alibis

The terrorist assault on cities began in Mumbai: not Mumbai 2008, but Mumbai 1993. A series of coordinated bomb blasts in February 1993 had...

The fog of opinion polls

May I make a fervent plea to the Election Commission for some immediate electoral reform? This prayer is placed before the Commission rather than...

The fog of opinion polls

May I make a fervent plea to the Election Commission for some immediate electoral reform? This prayer is placed before the Commission rather than...

The fog of opinion polls

May I make a fervent plea to the Election Commission for some immediate electoral reform? This prayer is placed before the Commission rather than...

Selfie meets Helfie: The rise and triumph of Demtech

How many elections has the mobile phone witnessed? It began to come into its own about a decade ago, when inexpensive calls and SMS...

Selfie meets Helfie: The rise and triumph of Demtech

How many elections has the mobile phone witnessed? It began to come into its own about a decade ago, when inexpensive calls and SMS...

Selfie meets Helfie: The rise and triumph of Demtech

How many elections has the mobile phone witnessed? It began to come into its own about a decade ago, when inexpensive calls and SMS...

The use of strategic silence

The relationship between government and media is surely the most tempestuous fact of any democracy. The two represent parallel poles of power, but they...

The use of strategic silence

The relationship between government and media is surely the most tempestuous fact of any democracy. The two represent parallel poles of power, but they...

The use of strategic silence

The relationship between government and media is surely the most tempestuous fact of any democracy. The two represent parallel poles of power, but they...

If Left doesn’t do God, it should try Godfather

This must rank as one of the funniest stories in a long while. The Marxist candidate for mayor for the municipal election in Bidhannagar,...

If Left doesn’t do God, it should try Godfather

This must rank as one of the funniest stories in a long while. The Marxist candidate for mayor for the municipal election in Bidhannagar,...

If Left doesn’t do God, it should try Godfather

This must rank as one of the funniest stories in a long while. The Marxist candidate for mayor for the municipal election in Bidhannagar,...

Islam and Burra Sahibs in 1965 Pakistan

There is a small but significant question about the 1965 war that no one has asked and, therefore, no one has answered. Why did...

Islam and Burra Sahibs in 1965 Pakistan

There is a small but significant question about the 1965 war that no one has asked and, therefore, no one has answered. Why did...

Islam and Burra Sahibs in 1965 Pakistan

There is a small but significant question about the 1965 war that no one has asked and, therefore, no one has answered. Why did...

There is fire in facts; Congress will get burnt

The alleged death of our iconic hero, Subhas Chandra Bose, more familiarly known as "Netaji", in an air crash in 1945 remains, to adapt...

There is fire in facts; Congress will get burnt

The alleged death of our iconic hero, Subhas Chandra Bose, more familiarly known as "Netaji", in an air crash in 1945 remains, to adapt...

There is fire in facts; Congress will get burnt

The alleged death of our iconic hero, Subhas Chandra Bose, more familiarly known as "Netaji", in an air crash in 1945 remains, to adapt...

A debate between sentiment and logic in Bihar

The Bihar Assembly election has become a powerful debate between sectarian sentiment and economic logic. The bookends of sentiment, caste and community, are familiar....

A debate between sentiment and logic in Bihar

The Bihar Assembly election has become a powerful debate between sectarian sentiment and economic logic. The bookends of sentiment, caste and community, are familiar....

A debate between sentiment and logic in Bihar

The Bihar Assembly election has become a powerful debate between sectarian sentiment and economic logic. The bookends of sentiment, caste and community, are familiar....

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, actually

A name is a tricky thing. You never know when you might have to live up to it.Political parties, wisely, choose to be safe...

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, actually

A name is a tricky thing. You never know when you might have to live up to it.Political parties, wisely, choose to be safe...

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, actually

A name is a tricky thing. You never know when you might have to live up to it.Political parties, wisely, choose to be safe...

Hell on earth

Murder becomes hypnotic when it is pure evil. We stare at it compulsively, obsessively, with limitless appetite. A psychoanalyst would be able to suggest...

Hell on earth

Murder becomes hypnotic when it is pure evil. We stare at it compulsively, obsessively, with limitless appetite. A psychoanalyst would be able to suggest...

Hell on earth

Murder becomes hypnotic when it is pure evil. We stare at it compulsively, obsessively, with limitless appetite. A psychoanalyst would be able to suggest...

Ladakh is not a cakewalk for BJP

BJP hopes to regain Sambhal from SP

Court convicts man accused of molesting teenager

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