Res Gestae

Peeling the onion of political ideology in India is an assault on reason. You have rabble-rousing Hindutva hordes, which held sway from 1...

Contemplating the election just completed in Goa, my mind wandered to a Sunday afternoon a few years ago. At lunch in a friend’s place n...

Mahatmas with a small m Through my pre-teen and teenage years, I spent a lot of time with my grandfather. He was a medical doctor, a th...

Anti-Congressism is the common plank of those motivated by short-term political gain. Peeling the onion of political ideology in India i...

Failed Protests Targeted Reformist Government The “ India against Corruption” campaign focused somewhat obsessively on corruption in high...

Let us not get carried away by the crusade of the self-appointed guardians of public interest First, a "fast unto death" fueled ...

Anna Hazare’s “fast unto death” is a throwback to more innocent times when the oppressor was colonial, clearly identified and vilified. To...