Cross Connections

It is no less than an edict, one which has prompted me to say, "yes, Prime Minister, but..." Narendra Modi's advise to the...

The Last Supper is not just Resurrection. It seems a challenge to authority, to the haters, to those who kill, and who cannot stand dissent...

There is competition over who meets Muslim clerics among the two top political  parties, and then both accuse each other of appeasement. ...

Three recent examples. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said: "I have always maintained that Rahul Gandhi would be an ideal choi...

A Gujarati friend living in London was chuffed. "I think he's done it, he'll make it," she wrote. Her family could be ...

Time to roll out the red carpet? I am not alluding to Dr. Manmohan Singh’s faith by addressing him as ‘Sardarji’ here. Sardar ...

Do we know about who is the greatest Indian before Mahatma Gandhi? It does not matter. We live in iconic times with iconic figure who did...

He won’t utter the R word. He won’t call it racism. His job matters. It took the President of the United States of America one month to com...

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” - Ralph Nader 

I think our Prime Minister is not weak; he knows his so-called weakness works in his favour . Therefore, L.K.Advani may be sighing with Hiss...

There are custodial killings and there are custodial deaths. It is rather intriguing that when a member of the ruling party dies in police c...

Inside every American there is a president waiting to come out. So it would seem from former Prez Jimmy Carter’s recent statements. I find t...

Muaah, I am a yankee poodle Tony Blair is the sort of guy you would take home to your pet orangutan provided your pet orangutan is upto i...

So the next head of the Tata group need not be a Parsi. Is it good news? Does it mean that the great big Indian industries are getting out o...

You would not catch them attending a leadership programme at one of our universities or management institutes. But twelve of our ministers w...