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Fourteen centuries later
If it hadn’t been for the vagaries of a wandering life, Mishi Saran tells us at the outset of Chasing the Monk’s Shadow, she would not have written this...
Terrorising market-states
With the ushering in of the Obama era, the term “war on terror” appears to have fallen permanently from the American national security lexicon. To be fair,...
Parliamentary Brief
Synopsis The new parliament had a good start in its first full session: there were fewer interruptions, more time was spent on busi-ness, and importantly, parliament...
Getting objective about it
In January 2009, PBS, a US television network, ran a documentary titled The Story of India. Hosted by Michael Wood, this six-part series narrated a compressed history...
In defence of liberty
“If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the...
Let us keep our Republic
Before she was selected by John McCain as his running mate in the 2008 US presidential elections, Sarah Palin was a little known governor of a distant American state....
Liberalise education
Nobel Prize-winning economist Douglass North observed that “economic history is overwhelmingly a story of economies that failed to produce a set of economic rules...
Vote!
In the aftermath of the terrorist strike in Mumbai in November 2008, many people expressed their anger and frustration at the political leadership. An idea that...
The case for freedom
A visitor from the 17th century on a trip to the year 2009 would be rather surprised to learn that the United States of America is in distress. He would, of course,...
Human capitalism
Even before joining the Indian government to lead the national ID project, Nandan Nilekani — then chairman of Infosys Technologies — was engaged in a number...
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