Cross Connections

The perennial brat A. R. Antulay reminded me of the cartoon character Dennis the Menace. He looked like the brat that popular tales about ...

Natwar Singh is right about one thing: Sonia Gandhi should have kept quiet. The one-time Congress loyalist and senior minister has writte...

The anchor held up a piece of paper and shouted down a politician with the precious words: "I have this secret information." A r...

Of all forms of photography, I am drawn most to portraits. Faces. Forms. Expressions. The result is less about technique and more about what...

What makes a senior political leader use the example of a woman from the entertainment industry to hit out at a political opponent? Con...

BJP Prez in Sharon Stone moment This is your friendly neighbourhood BJP party president, Nitin Gadkari. If I were to deconstruct this...

The only person who is probably surprised that Nitin Gadkari’s name has come up in the grand Arvind Kejriwal expose would probably be Niti...

I am not particularly interested in what lawyer and Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi does in his spare time, and especially not ...

We have seen how the 2G scam unfolded. Important people were packed off to jail. The really prominent names were not. No Tata, no Ambani. Th...

Mohamed Haneef and the Middle-class by Farzana Versey Countercurrents, December 22 Julian Assange has given the Indian middle-class and ...

Last night I did not watch ‘The Buck Stops Here’ on NDTV. I caught it on the Net today. The video showed an image with the words, “This is n...

...and me writing about him, then read no further. But he is lying. You want to know that, don’t you? 1984. Mr. B was campaigning fo...

Maverick : Stings that stink by Farzana Versey The Asian Age, Op-ed, Sept. 18, 2007 Have sting operations changed anything? Have people stop...