In Arun Jaitley’s death, nation loses a brilliant strategist in public life

During the negotiation of the 1972 Simla Agreement, Mrs Indira Gandhi stayed in the Presidential Retreat above Mashobra....read more

How the US President will take that is far less certain. ...read more

Called Savarkar: The true story of the Father of Hindutva, its author Vaibhav Purandare writes he was not a cow worshipper. “If the cow’s mother to anyone at all, it’s the bullock”, Savarkar wrote in his Marathi journal Kirloskar. “Not the hindus. If Hindutva is to sustain itself on cow’s legs it......read more

Had Bose been alive in 1947, and, by some quirk of fate, had he, and not Nehru, been the PM, he too would have begun by praising Mahatma Gandhi. He too would have insisted that it was “wrong to suggest that in this country there would be the rule of a particular religion or sect”. ...read more

Whether you live by the meter or not, routine is a must...read more

Former finance minister Arun Jaitley, of course, had many friends in the media but his passing signifies something much larger than that....read more

‘Prepone’ is a word, dear reader. It has been for centuries, and comes to us from the same Latin root as ‘postpone’...read more