Feb 26, 2022 The passing of the incomparable Lata Mangeshkar gives us a chance to pause and pat ourselves on our backs. Our country, our culture, our civilization, if you will, have gifted to the world an extraordinary art form available virtually nowhere else. It may have been a new technology, but its father in India, […]
Dec 11, 2019 Consider this story: X is a Sindhi Hindu shopkeeper in a small town in Sindh. He has a family. He is worried. He wants to “leave” the country of his birth and migrate to India. If he were a Syrian or a Mauritanian or a Libyan, the Leftists of the World would […]
Feb 9, 2018 Niall Ferguson has emerged as one of the finest historians of recent times. His ability to avoid fashionable leftist jargon, look with equal ease upon broad patterns as well as upon individual contributions, and his humanist concerns, all lead to his emergence as a scholar and a stylish writer in the tradition […]
Jan 12, 2018 One of the heartening features of the present government’s behavior is that there is considerable focus not only on short-term goodies, e.g. loan waivers, but on tough longer-term measures that would involve ensuring an adequate tax-GDP ratio so that India does not inexorably decay into a failed state. There is also a […]
Feb 8, 2015 A couple of months ago, I was attending a Carnatic music concert. My daughter was sitting next to me. The singer announced that the next melody would be Kurai Onrum Illai which was composed by Rajaji. My daughter looked at me and said “How many things did he do? Was he also a composer?” […]
Sep 18, 2014 Amartya Sen has made the case that a “great argument” never dies. Even though, on the surface, Arjuna lost the argument of the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna’s dissenting views never completely disappeared. They remained as a subterranean intellectual current and frequently reappeared in different temporal contexts. The arguments made in the columns of […]