To, Dear Indians, Let's lead the world on the potency of our ideas

One late dusky evening in 2011, Prashant Bhushan and I were chatting on our drive back after a two day meet on Lokpal Bill in a remote,...

Heroes: Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru Dr Prithvi Sharma Dr Subhash Sonawane Glenn Greenwald Mikail Gorbachev Prince Emmanuel De Me...

Right around the time when India confronts leadership vacuum in political arena, Omar Abdullah is a breath of fresh air. An accomplishe...

The Battle Lines are not between the parties but between civil society and the political parties India's general elections are comi...

As an active citizen of India, I can only offer conditional support to political parties and candidates because I am married to India's...

There are many reason why I single out Narendra Modi in my criticism but I will highlight 3 most important factors: 1) Modi is the wors...

Who was in charge?  Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler and HKL Bhagat were congress MPs/leaders without any administrative power. On the contrar...

We must question the unjust and undemocratic neo-liberal development model blindly followed by all parties in our country. In that sense, ...

Gujarat's Economic Journey in brief: Since its creation on 1st May 1960, Gujarat has been among the leading states in India It is al...

Dear friends, Many of my friends have brought up a discussion and wondered whom they should vote in the upcoming general election? The com...

Dear friends, One of the key shortcoming of our emerging middle class and youth is the lack of grasp of what India constitutes; what it me...

Heartwarming article on Bihar's rejuvenation and rehabilitation

I wish this Vellore model was recreated in Pune -

Dear Indians, Time has come to have a debate. Our core Democratic values are at stake. There is a lot of noise from different quarters. Al...

So rarely has the cerebral blended with the sinewy; and blend it does with incredible confidence and hopes of well being for a nation torn i...

Devinder Sharma is one of India's leading Agro experts. He was recently on Democracy Now explaining root causes of Global Food Crisis ...

Dear Indians, As a young man growing up in India, I always craved for inspiring leadership; for electrifying oratory; for sound, balanced an...

Dear Indians, Let us spread the word to bring awareness about the brewing threat of radical orthodoxy in our own backyard so that while we r...

Dear Indians, We all know we suffer from collective amnesia but I was confident this was different; This terrorist attack had awakened a new...

Dear Indians, Writing a character study is always challenged by the need to bring out various layers and contradictions to make a character ...

Dear Indians, Tehelka recently carried a series on young parliamentarians. I think Mr BJ Panda stands tall among them for the depth and widt...

Dear Indians, Naxal movement has gathered so much momentum that government can no longer ignore it as another problem in our backyard. Admit...

Dear Indians, Here are couple of articles analyzing Dr Singh's performance. They make a worthy reading for a common man because it provi...

Dear Indians, My habit of drawing parallels between a common American citizen and a common Indian citizen found that more often than not, bo...

Dear Indians, SRK has been the flavor of the decade and half for people in my age group. I loved him just as much as the youngster/hipster/j...

To, Dear Indians, If India is to rightfully stake its claim to stardom in the new world order, it definitely needs to wipe the shame of ...

To, Dear Indians, Dr Yunus and his experiment with micro finance has brought this poverty-eliminating tool at the forefront of our discussio...

To, Dear Indians, The state of our state is abysmal and there are tragic stories galore. If our heroes like Gautam Goswami cannot get a f...

Dear Indians, Perhaps, our most irritating, banal reaction to a call for public service or nationalist sentiment is - Koi Kuch Nahi Kar R...

To, Dear Indians, Here is an interesting article on how we are becoming informed citizens judiciously electing candidates on issue of gov...