M.D. Nalapat, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

Can Rahul do a Narasimha Rao?

Sharing power with "outsiders" is not a trait associated with the Nehru family, and Rahul Gandhi has been focusing on strategies whereby his party...

Can Rahul do a Narasimha Rao?

Sharing power with "outsiders" is not a trait associated with the Nehru family, and Rahul Gandhi has been focusing on strategies whereby his party...

Sawant must get Rs 10,000 cr

What, a mere Rs 100 cr for the indescribable torture and humiliation felt by Justice P.B. Sawant as viewers beheld the sage visage of...

Sawant must get Rs 10,000 cr

What, a mere Rs 100 cr for the indescribable torture and humiliation felt by Justice P.B. Sawant as viewers beheld the sage visage of...

Sawant must get Rs 10,000 cr

What, a mere Rs 100 cr for the indescribable torture and humiliation felt by Justice P.B. Sawant as viewers beheld the sage visage of...

India’s rubber civil frame

The Indian Civil Service was commonly regarded at the time as a triple misnomer, being neither Indian nor civil nor even remotely a service....

India’s rubber civil frame

The Indian Civil Service was commonly regarded at the time as a triple misnomer, being neither Indian nor civil nor even remotely a service....

India’s rubber civil frame

The Indian Civil Service was commonly regarded at the time as a triple misnomer, being neither Indian nor civil nor even remotely a service....

No specialists, please, we’re Home and Defence

Disaffection within the "native" segment of the armed forces based in India during British rule led to Whitehall finally deciding to quit India, five...

No specialists, please, we’re Home and Defence

Disaffection within the "native" segment of the armed forces based in India during British rule led to Whitehall finally deciding to quit India, five...

No specialists, please, we’re Home and Defence

Disaffection within the "native" segment of the armed forces based in India during British rule led to Whitehall finally deciding to quit India, five...

A saint in our midst

The cover of Rani Singh's "Sonia Gandhi" shows the leader, smiling in a red sari, actually touching a grey mass of humanity, humble in...

A saint in our midst

The cover of Rani Singh's "Sonia Gandhi" shows the leader, smiling in a red sari, actually touching a grey mass of humanity, humble in...

A saint in our midst

The cover of Rani Singh's "Sonia Gandhi" shows the leader, smiling in a red sari, actually touching a grey mass of humanity, humble in...

Tell the PLA to get off

The Mao-era People's of Republic of China (PRC) is very different from the country as it had been during the Deng era. The Great...

Tell the PLA to get off

The Mao-era People's of Republic of China (PRC) is very different from the country as it had been during the Deng era. The Great...

Tell the PLA to get off

The Mao-era People's of Republic of China (PRC) is very different from the country as it had been during the Deng era. The Great...

Have money and stay free

So deeply has the colonial experience penetrated into the psyche of the people of India that the definition of "independence" is the right to...

Have money and stay free

So deeply has the colonial experience penetrated into the psyche of the people of India that the definition of "independence" is the right to...

Have money and stay free

So deeply has the colonial experience penetrated into the psyche of the people of India that the definition of "independence" is the right to...

If, and when, the mighty fall

A perception of invincibility is what allows rulers to continue to exercise their sway. For a considerable period of time, the British Raj was...

If, and when, the mighty fall

A perception of invincibility is what allows rulers to continue to exercise their sway. For a considerable period of time, the British Raj was...

If, and when, the mighty fall

A perception of invincibility is what allows rulers to continue to exercise their sway. For a considerable period of time, the British Raj was...

Pranab stands up for the facts

Watching Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee refuse to deny the ministry's note when questioned in Washington DC about making public Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram's...

Pranab stands up for the facts

Watching Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee refuse to deny the ministry's note when questioned in Washington DC about making public Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram's...

Pranab stands up for the facts

Watching Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee refuse to deny the ministry's note when questioned in Washington DC about making public Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram's...

The RBI has gone mad

There are numerous corners of Indian officialdom that still believe that the country is in the pre-1947 stage, when civilised people ruled India, and...

The RBI has gone mad

There are numerous corners of Indian officialdom that still believe that the country is in the pre-1947 stage, when civilised people ruled India, and...

The RBI has gone mad

There are numerous corners of Indian officialdom that still believe that the country is in the pre-1947 stage, when civilised people ruled India, and...

To kill or not to kill

Poor Rajiv Gandhi. Not only have individuals associated with groups that backed the LTTE been accommodated in senior governmental positions since 2004, but now...

To kill or not to kill

Poor Rajiv Gandhi. Not only have individuals associated with groups that backed the LTTE been accommodated in senior governmental positions since 2004, but now...

To kill or not to kill

Poor Rajiv Gandhi. Not only have individuals associated with groups that backed the LTTE been accommodated in senior governmental positions since 2004, but now...

Remember Lord Keynes, Mr Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh may have studied economics, but he has clearly not heard of John Maynard Keynes, who claimed that "in the long run we...

Remember Lord Keynes, Mr Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh may have studied economics, but he has clearly not heard of John Maynard Keynes, who claimed that "in the long run we...

Remember Lord Keynes, Mr Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh may have studied economics, but he has clearly not heard of John Maynard Keynes, who claimed that "in the long run we...

Politicians must free Indians

Some years ago, this columnist chanced to visit the corridors of Mumbai's pricey Breach Candy Hospital when the incomparable Raj Kapoor was in his...

Politicians must free Indians

Some years ago, this columnist chanced to visit the corridors of Mumbai's pricey Breach Candy Hospital when the incomparable Raj Kapoor was in his...

Politicians must free Indians

Some years ago, this columnist chanced to visit the corridors of Mumbai's pricey Breach Candy Hospital when the incomparable Raj Kapoor was in his...

A tyranny of the elected?

Both Swami Ramdev and Anna Hazare share Mahatma Gandhi's desire that India returns to innocence, to a period when there was no linguistic pollution via...

A tyranny of the elected?

Both Swami Ramdev and Anna Hazare share Mahatma Gandhi's desire that India returns to innocence, to a period when there was no linguistic pollution via...

A tyranny of the elected?

Both Swami Ramdev and Anna Hazare share Mahatma Gandhi's desire that India returns to innocence, to a period when there was no linguistic pollution via...

Who is right about Rahul?

Like most national capitals, Delhi too abounds in those influentials who fib for a living. In the presumed secrecy of their homes or in...

Who is right about Rahul?

Like most national capitals, Delhi too abounds in those influentials who fib for a living. In the presumed secrecy of their homes or in...

Who is right about Rahul?

Like most national capitals, Delhi too abounds in those influentials who fib for a living. In the presumed secrecy of their homes or in...

If only Advani were a Sonia

Despite its occasional posturing — usually only after sustained prodding from the permanent residents of the RSS HQ at Nagpur — the BJP leadership admires...

If only Advani were a Sonia

Despite its occasional posturing — usually only after sustained prodding from the permanent residents of the RSS HQ at Nagpur — the BJP leadership admires...

If only Advani were a Sonia

Despite its occasional posturing — usually only after sustained prodding from the permanent residents of the RSS HQ at Nagpur — the BJP leadership admires...