Cross Connections

One would probably do a double-take thinking of the Barack Obama administration intimidating the CIA operatives who were in Benghazi, when t...

(This is a fictitious account that I would have written if I were young and at Delhi on this day)    I live in Delhi and have alrea...

Can you imagine Libyan pro-democracy group overtaking the headquarters of an extremist organisation, that too to protest against the ki...

and a dash of Modi... a Kejriwal at the protest This time I am with Kiran Bedi because I know where she stands. Whatever be her persona...

Silent observers when a ghastly crime occurs and 25,000 supporters for the victims once it becomes news. What does this tell us? Citizens’ ...

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...

Nisreen in Gaddafi's army It was only a matter of time before Libya found a totem. The psychological semantics are beautifully la...

Calcutta Club I have failed to understand why people object to dress codes in elite institutions. If they are elite, they will have cert...

I liked the sight of Sushma Swaraj dancing at Rajghat. The Congress did not. The AICC General Secretary said: “By dancing at the Samadhi ...

‘Midnight drama’, ‘Midnight drama’ kept flashing on the screen. Since I had not kept up with the news at midnight, I had no clue. Why do the...

Who’d have thought that the government move against deodorant ads would get a saffron person to state: “I guess these guidelines do not ap...

Happy to help? “Are stone pelters the real heroes?” is a question that is on the minds of many Kashmiris. In a winter that follows a sum...

Why are the Pakistani peroxide blondes not coming out in support of Aafia Siddiqui when she is closer to their league? It is surprising to s...

Omar Abdullah has decided that he is going to be a good boy and follow the spirit of Ramzan. Therefore, he has forgiven the suspended head c...

I don’t know about you, but I am really tired of the intellectual analyses these shoe-throwing incidents have thrown up. The manner in which...

The separatists in the Valley have their own calendar now marked with specific days of protest, we are told. Sunday is a working day. Is t...

Opposition parties are supposed to oppose and question government policies. However, when they give a call for a bandh it affects the common...

A couple of days after he had drawn women’s undies, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi looked like someone back from battle. The two events may no...

Asif Ali Zardari was supposed to be following Hillary Clinton’s diktat. What happened? Why was Nawaz Sharif put under house arrest? And if h...

“Today is a defining moment in Pakistan's history. We can change the destiny of this country. Pakistan stands at a crossroads today and ...