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The Sri Lanka Resolution, Human Rights and the Indian Paradox
As a budding journalist inIndia, human rights were not an issue that interested me. I was young, life was comfortable and I never looked underneath the carpet for the dirt…. Read more
World Rare Disease Day and My Lessons From it All
As we get ready to mark the Rare Disease Day on February 29, I wanted to write this, in the hope that it would catch some of our attention and… Read more
Shoaib Lends Perfect Marketing Spin to Memoirs with Controversial Comments
I must say the title of Shoaib Akhtar’s book is apt as controversy is his middle name. Akhtar has been the most controversial cricketer around in the recent times. No… Read more
Don’t Hide from Shoaib’s Yorker, India. Pad Up and Read it
They have a favourite expression in Bollywood, going as far back as anyone can recall: suspension of disbelief. Now that Indian cricket, too, could be termed as an industry unto… Read more
Adios Rahul Dravid: The Man for All Seasons for Indian Cricket
I cannot claim to know Rahul Dravid. It’s another matter that I cannot claim to know any Indian cricketer, but that’s a story for another day. But Dravid was one… Read more
Delhi Blast: Why the Media Should Not Shrink Away from ‘Graphic’ Details
As a journalist who has for most part of his newspapering career so far worked on the desk, it has always been a challenge to decide what to drop, rather… Read more
Another Bomb Blast, 11 Killed, yet Life Goes on
Another explosion, 11 more dead. Just add that up to the growing list of casualties of terror. But yes, life goes on. From the tone of the reporter on TV,… Read more
Delhi Blast: No Method, No Madness, Just a Disease
They say there is a method in the madness. I don’t see it. I just see madness dancing its Nataraja number sans balance, sans reasons, sans ideology, sans any consideration… Read more
Anna’s Victory Brings Irom Sharmila’s Release Closer, says her Fiancé
Desmond Coutinho has been called a lunatic, a madman and many other names by Irom Sharmila’s supporters. But for the 39-year-old human rights activist from Manipur, who has been on… Read more
Of the Spooked Raisina Hill: Whose Coup was it, Mr Shekhar Gupta?
The bizarre and sensational story by The India Express edition dated April 4, 2012 — The January night when Raisina Hills was spooked – is an article written by a man who wears… Read more »