We are not just ‘soft’ on terror, a charge often leveled against the UPA government by the BJP. We are a soft nation. We deal with earthquakes and floods the same way we deal with terror. We are an argumentative people and can seldom agree on...

There are two ways to look at the UPA government’s quick U-turn on sugar cane pricing policy. It bowed after protesting farmers stormed into Delhi in unprecedented numbers, backed by opposition parties in Parliament. Or, it bowed after Rahul...

The quality of English one encounters in the media – both in print as well as on television – has been a cause for concern.  Senior editors such as S Nihal Singh have agonised over the mangled English seen on television. Print has its own share of...

The cellphone revolution is dead. Long live the cellphone revolution. That is a sentiment one gets as the Indian cellular industry enters a turbulent phase after its explosive growth since the late 1990s.  A tariff war is crippling most operators,...

For several months now, we have been somewhat gripped by the feud between the Ambani brothers. Since the core of the recent feud has been related to gas, which belongs to the nation as a whole, much of the debate has been centered on the question: Is...