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

Dawn will show the day

Democracy has many loose ends. Among them is the understandable itch of media to predict the fate of a marathon after the first hundred...

Dawn will show the day

Democracy has many loose ends. Among them is the understandable itch of media to predict the fate of a marathon after the first hundred...

Dawn will show the day

Democracy has many loose ends. Among them is the understandable itch of media to predict the fate of a marathon after the first hundred...

Antony of Cricket, Shastri of Politics

What does tight-lipped Congress politician A.K. Antony have in common with loquacious cricket commentator Ravi Shastri? Both have been summoned from the woodwork to...

Antony of Cricket, Shastri of Politics

What does tight-lipped Congress politician A.K. Antony have in common with loquacious cricket commentator Ravi Shastri? Both have been summoned from the woodwork to...

Antony of Cricket, Shastri of Politics

What does tight-lipped Congress politician A.K. Antony have in common with loquacious cricket commentator Ravi Shastri? Both have been summoned from the woodwork to...

The challenge of hope

Prime Ministers choose one of three options when they step up to the podium at the Red Fort on Independence Day. They speak to...

The challenge of hope

Prime Ministers choose one of three options when they step up to the podium at the Red Fort on Independence Day. They speak to...

The challenge of hope

Prime Ministers choose one of three options when they step up to the podium at the Red Fort on Independence Day. They speak to...

A soft touch on the shoulder

When a tyrant asked Plato for the Constitution of Athens, a proud democratic city-state five centuries before the Christian era, the philosopher sent him...

A soft touch on the shoulder

When a tyrant asked Plato for the Constitution of Athens, a proud democratic city-state five centuries before the Christian era, the philosopher sent him...

A soft touch on the shoulder

When a tyrant asked Plato for the Constitution of Athens, a proud democratic city-state five centuries before the Christian era, the philosopher sent him...

The Book of Revelations

Why write a fatbook when a single sentence might suffice?There are many excellent reasons why Mrs Sonia Gandhi should pen a memoir, but Kunwar...

The Book of Revelations

Why write a fatbook when a single sentence might suffice?There are many excellent reasons why Mrs Sonia Gandhi should pen a memoir, but Kunwar...

The Book of Revelations

Why write a fatbook when a single sentence might suffice?There are many excellent reasons why Mrs Sonia Gandhi should pen a memoir, but Kunwar...

July is a volatile month

Sir Jadunath Sarkar, the eminent historian, records that in 1679 Shivaji sent a letter to the emperor Aurangzeb protesting against the imposition of jizya...

July is a volatile month

Sir Jadunath Sarkar, the eminent historian, records that in 1679 Shivaji sent a letter to the emperor Aurangzeb protesting against the imposition of jizya...

July is a volatile month

Sir Jadunath Sarkar, the eminent historian, records that in 1679 Shivaji sent a letter to the emperor Aurangzeb protesting against the imposition of jizya...

Time to get back on Track 1

Saints are the exception. Anyone else in the writing business, including those of us at the nether end of the business, can rarely resist...

Time to get back on Track 1

Saints are the exception. Anyone else in the writing business, including those of us at the nether end of the business, can rarely resist...

Time to get back on Track 1

Saints are the exception. Anyone else in the writing business, including those of us at the nether end of the business, can rarely resist...

A nod in the wrong direction

My sympathies are entirely with Rahul Gandhi in the Curious Case of the Sleeping Leader. The great inner chamber of the temple of Indian...

A nod in the wrong direction

My sympathies are entirely with Rahul Gandhi in the Curious Case of the Sleeping Leader. The great inner chamber of the temple of Indian...

A nod in the wrong direction

My sympathies are entirely with Rahul Gandhi in the Curious Case of the Sleeping Leader. The great inner chamber of the temple of Indian...

The absentee landlord

A tough fact of democratic life is that you cannot quite unmake a statement after having once made it. Good politicians, therefore, shade what...

The absentee landlord

A tough fact of democratic life is that you cannot quite unmake a statement after having once made it. Good politicians, therefore, shade what...

The absentee landlord

A tough fact of democratic life is that you cannot quite unmake a statement after having once made it. Good politicians, therefore, shade what...

India’s couch football syndrome

Readers with an unpolluted, refined memory will recall a news story put out by the dregs of western media some months ago saying that...

India’s couch football syndrome

Readers with an unpolluted, refined memory will recall a news story put out by the dregs of western media some months ago saying that...

India’s couch football syndrome

Readers with an unpolluted, refined memory will recall a news story put out by the dregs of western media some months ago saying that...

The new shapes of war

In 2005, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice laid down a policy line that began in war-ravaged Iraq, and then crept through the Middle...

The new shapes of war

In 2005, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice laid down a policy line that began in war-ravaged Iraq, and then crept through the Middle...

The new shapes of war

In 2005, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice laid down a policy line that began in war-ravaged Iraq, and then crept through the Middle...

A robust challenge to cynicism

More has been written about Indian Muslims than has ever been done for them. If they could convert six decades of Congress hypocrisy into...

A robust challenge to cynicism

More has been written about Indian Muslims than has ever been done for them. If they could convert six decades of Congress hypocrisy into...

A robust challenge to cynicism

More has been written about Indian Muslims than has ever been done for them. If they could convert six decades of Congress hypocrisy into...

The post-Nato war has started

A shadow war does not begin with an ultimatum. It is conducted by militias, not a military. It is not fought in the name...

The post-Nato war has started

A shadow war does not begin with an ultimatum. It is conducted by militias, not a military. It is not fought in the name...

The post-Nato war has started

A shadow war does not begin with an ultimatum. It is conducted by militias, not a military. It is not fought in the name...

The savage subcontinent

To be left speechless with horror is not a democratic response to barbarism. Democracy is nothing without a voice. There come moments when nothing...

The savage subcontinent

To be left speechless with horror is not a democratic response to barbarism. Democracy is nothing without a voice. There come moments when nothing...

The savage subcontinent

To be left speechless with horror is not a democratic response to barbarism. Democracy is nothing without a voice. There come moments when nothing...

Left out in the cold

Defeat seems to inflict unfortunate consequences on the thinking of even intelligent politicians. It has certainly destabilised the Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury, leader of...

Left out in the cold

Defeat seems to inflict unfortunate consequences on the thinking of even intelligent politicians. It has certainly destabilised the Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury, leader of...

Left out in the cold

Defeat seems to inflict unfortunate consequences on the thinking of even intelligent politicians. It has certainly destabilised the Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury, leader of...

How history was made

What do we mean when we suggest that history has been made? History has to be something more than just another event; beyond a...

How history was made

What do we mean when we suggest that history has been made? History has to be something more than just another event; beyond a...

How history was made

What do we mean when we suggest that history has been made? History has to be something more than just another event; beyond a...

Model Towns of Democracy

Is there a high quality dramatist hidden in the calendar department of the Election Commission? This general election has been a nine-act drama. Inevitably,...

Model Towns of Democracy

Is there a high quality dramatist hidden in the calendar department of the Election Commission? This general election has been a nine-act drama. Inevitably,...

India’s exports surge 19% in October

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Thaw in India-China relations presents many opportunities

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