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

Let facts speak for themselves

This might seem a far-fetched thought, but then these are over-stretched times. Would it help if we renamed the monsoon session of Parliament? It...

Let facts speak for themselves

This might seem a far-fetched thought, but then these are over-stretched times. Would it help if we renamed the monsoon session of Parliament? It...

Let facts speak for themselves

This might seem a far-fetched thought, but then these are over-stretched times. Would it help if we renamed the monsoon session of Parliament? It...

An anxious swivel-point in India-Pak relations

The India-Pakistan dialogue has been comatose ever since it suffered a severe stroke at Agra in 2001; will it sink into deeper relapse in...

An anxious swivel-point in India-Pak relations

The India-Pakistan dialogue has been comatose ever since it suffered a severe stroke at Agra in 2001; will it sink into deeper relapse in...

An anxious swivel-point in India-Pak relations

The India-Pakistan dialogue has been comatose ever since it suffered a severe stroke at Agra in 2001; will it sink into deeper relapse in...

Let facts speak for themselves

This might seem a far-fetched thought, but then these are over-stretched times. Would it help if we renamed the monsoon session of Parliament? It...

Let facts speak for themselves

This might seem a far-fetched thought, but then these are over-stretched times. Would it help if we renamed the monsoon session of Parliament? It...

Let facts speak for themselves

This might seem a far-fetched thought, but then these are over-stretched times. Would it help if we renamed the monsoon session of Parliament? It...

IS kills 37 rival rebels in Syria

Session of Parliament is soon to come to an end. Just four working days left and there is still so much to be

IS kills 37 rival rebels in Syria

Session of Parliament is soon to come to an end. Just four working days left and there is still so much to be

IS kills 37 rival rebels in Syria

Session of Parliament is soon to come to an end. Just four working days left and there is still so much to be

ISIS is a common threat

When India reassumes its engagement with successor states of the Safavid, Ottoman and European empires to its west up to the Nile and the...

ISIS is a common threat

When India reassumes its engagement with successor states of the Safavid, Ottoman and European empires to its west up to the Nile and the...

ISIS is a common threat

When India reassumes its engagement with successor states of the Safavid, Ottoman and European empires to its west up to the Nile and the...

Bhujangi Bhaijaan

Anything as witty as an Amul butter advertising campaign must be taken seriously, despite its use of that rhetorical nuisance called a pun. The...

Bhujangi Bhaijaan

Anything as witty as an Amul butter advertising campaign must be taken seriously, despite its use of that rhetorical nuisance called a pun. The...

Bhujangi Bhaijaan

Anything as witty as an Amul butter advertising campaign must be taken seriously, despite its use of that rhetorical nuisance called a pun. The...

A building block in the SAARC vision

The India-Pakistan relationship is vulnerable to history, geography, ideology, sabotage, uncertainty and miscalculation. Ever since Pakistan launched its first war for Kashmir, within ten...

A building block in the SAARC vision

The India-Pakistan relationship is vulnerable to history, geography, ideology, sabotage, uncertainty and miscalculation. Ever since Pakistan launched its first war for Kashmir, within ten...

A building block in the SAARC vision

The India-Pakistan relationship is vulnerable to history, geography, ideology, sabotage, uncertainty and miscalculation. Ever since Pakistan launched its first war for Kashmir, within ten...

The truth that we don’t want to see

Wake up. Smell the coffee. It is bitter with the acrid dregs of failure. Half of India is trapped between hunger and semi-starvation. The...

The truth that we don’t want to see

Wake up. Smell the coffee. It is bitter with the acrid dregs of failure. Half of India is trapped between hunger and semi-starvation. The...

The truth that we don’t want to see

Wake up. Smell the coffee. It is bitter with the acrid dregs of failure. Half of India is trapped between hunger and semi-starvation. The...

1975: A coup against liberty

Emergency, imposed this week forty years ago by Mrs Indira Gandhi, was an evil with multiple fangs. The pivot was dictatorship. Its radials, with...

1975: A coup against liberty

Emergency, imposed this week forty years ago by Mrs Indira Gandhi, was an evil with multiple fangs. The pivot was dictatorship. Its radials, with...

1975: A coup against liberty

Emergency, imposed this week forty years ago by Mrs Indira Gandhi, was an evil with multiple fangs. The pivot was dictatorship. Its radials, with...

Yoga in my family

My father-in-law, Joseph John, son of a high priest in the Syrian Christian church, was a gentle person with a smile that mirrored a...

Yoga in my family

My father-in-law, Joseph John, son of a high priest in the Syrian Christian church, was a gentle person with a smile that mirrored a...

Yoga in my family

My father-in-law, Joseph John, son of a high priest in the Syrian Christian church, was a gentle person with a smile that mirrored a...

Poison on menu at Bihar wedding feast

Marriage, noted George Bernard Shaw, the finest playwright in English since Shakespeare, is an institution that thrives because there are such excellent divorce laws....

Poison on menu at Bihar wedding feast

Marriage, noted George Bernard Shaw, the finest playwright in English since Shakespeare, is an institution that thrives because there are such excellent divorce laws....

Poison on menu at Bihar wedding feast

Marriage, noted George Bernard Shaw, the finest playwright in English since Shakespeare, is an institution that thrives because there are such excellent divorce laws....

Sports must be saved from eat-and-feed

For most of the 20th century, the game to watch was football, if you could get a ticket. The game to hear was cricket,...

Sports must be saved from eat-and-feed

For most of the 20th century, the game to watch was football, if you could get a ticket. The game to hear was cricket,...

Sports must be saved from eat-and-feed

For most of the 20th century, the game to watch was football, if you could get a ticket. The game to hear was cricket,...

Fill in this form, join Osama Bin Laden

One of the most extraordinary documents to emerge in recent years is the application form for a job in Osama bin Laden's Jihad. It...

Fill in this form, join Osama Bin Laden

One of the most extraordinary documents to emerge in recent years is the application form for a job in Osama bin Laden's Jihad. It...

Fill in this form, join Osama Bin Laden

One of the most extraordinary documents to emerge in recent years is the application form for a job in Osama bin Laden's Jihad. It...

Distortion can become an addiction

There is one articulate politician who knows more than he might be likely to admit about corporate influence on political power. Mani Shankar Aiyar...

Distortion can become an addiction

There is one articulate politician who knows more than he might be likely to admit about corporate influence on political power. Mani Shankar Aiyar...

Distortion can become an addiction

There is one articulate politician who knows more than he might be likely to admit about corporate influence on political power. Mani Shankar Aiyar...

Challenge, change and some hope

Dr Henry Kissinger, master of international relations and lifetime student of its practice, writes that the long-serving foreign minister of the Soviet Union, Andrei...

Challenge, change and some hope

Dr Henry Kissinger, master of international relations and lifetime student of its practice, writes that the long-serving foreign minister of the Soviet Union, Andrei...

Challenge, change and some hope

Dr Henry Kissinger, master of international relations and lifetime student of its practice, writes that the long-serving foreign minister of the Soviet Union, Andrei...

A lion in the room

Every election shifts politics. It takes an unusual one to alter geopolitics. Britain became, in the first week of May, a different country.The big...

A lion in the room

Every election shifts politics. It takes an unusual one to alter geopolitics. Britain became, in the first week of May, a different country.The big...

A lion in the room

Every election shifts politics. It takes an unusual one to alter geopolitics. Britain became, in the first week of May, a different country.The big...

Nothing absurd about the IPL theatre

Which of the two provides a better portrait of contemporary urban India: the stadium scenes of people watching an IPL cricket match, or the...

Nothing absurd about the IPL theatre

Which of the two provides a better portrait of contemporary urban India: the stadium scenes of people watching an IPL cricket match, or the...

Govt’s proactive strategies to counter cyber threats

Ladakh is not a cakewalk for BJP

Chartered flights for the elite exhaust Congress funds; LS candidates fend for themselves, quit contest

M.J. Akbar

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