Res Gestae

Gujarat is a small, relatively homogeneous state. Its people are entrepreneurial, focused on business and count their success in accumul...

Too Precious to Die Prakash Desai basically knew everything and everyone accepted this…until I came along one cold February evening in ...

Bigots and busybodies looking back in anger Candidates for the Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT) conducted by the Union Public Servi...

Bentley at the Red Light: Old Poverty, New Wealth For the first time, the electorate faces a clear ideological choice. The Congress is t...

Roll up, roll up…for the Namo Hype Tour that is dying to take you away…from reality, from conciliation, from tolerance, from grace, from t...

On a television talk show recently in which I was a participant, the question posed was “Have opposition politicians misunderstood the na...

The Butterfly City Late on a moonlit night, Ashish and his wife Nicole, my niece, drove me along the newly-built embankment on Ahmedabad’s S...

The Nano Goes to Modi’s Gujarat The decision by the Tata group to re-locate the Nano plant in Sanand is of concern to liberal Gujaratis. The...

Going Home Thirty-five years and two months is a long time to stay away from a place that you hated to leave at all. The thought crossed my...