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October 11, 2026
A sharp sword, but too heavy to lift
Till date no high worthy of India has been impeached after Warren Hastings and Elijah Impey. The one who came closest was Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court
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October 04, 2026
Female head on a world body?
Can Guterres’s successor, lady or gent, turn the UN relevant again? Doubtful, unless the big three want it to be
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September 27, 2026
Life in ICU can be fun
I had all the time in the world to read what I wanted—no sympathy-spilling visitors, no nagging family, no phone calls
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September 27, 2026
Close your eyes, think of Britain
Britain is on bad days, and the Brits have themselves to blame
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September 20, 2026
Dangling the noose? Many loose ends
Trial judges are dangling the rope more often than before in murder cases, though higher courts are, thankfully, staying soft
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September 13, 2026
Money-laundering by RBI
Our mint men are planning to give us plastic cash which may not turn into ash. Rather, it may shrivel, melt or drip, stink and leave some sticky stuff
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September 06, 2026
Social justice in a buffalo brawl
The Yadav vs Manjhi dispute could be the first test in India conducted to determine bovine maternity
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August 30, 2026
Give the Delhi sultans their due
A common misconception attributes most of Delhi's historical monuments to the Mughals due to their grand structures and a general confusion with other Sultanate periods
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August 23, 2026
Keeping up with Joneses in Keralam
Going by the logic of English spelling, foreigners will call the state Kere-laam. Pucca sahibs would say, if the word has to be pronounced the way it is in Malayalam, it should be spelt Keralom
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August 16, 2026
Beware of the last days of America
Global re-militarisation is accelerating as countries from Japan to Europe increase defence spending and form new strategic alliances
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August 09, 2026
Why laws fail, scammers pass
Law-making in India has become whimsical, and reactive to public outcries
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August 02, 2026
Lead, non-violent youth
Unlike their cousins in Dhaka, Colombo or Kathmandu, the Gen Z of Jantar Mantar didn’t storm Bastilles or bastions, palaces or parliaments. Yet they had their revolution
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July 26, 2026
Thugs, fossils and a mountain tunnel
For centuries most of central and north India was infested with members of a murder cult called thuggee
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July 19, 2026
Ayodhya Ram Mandir theft: Honour the deity and the devotee
The alleged theft at Ram Mandir is a breach of the trust and faith that millions of devotees place in one of India’s holiest shrines.
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July 19, 2026
Communism: An idea whose end hasn’t come
India’s secular intellectual space will continue to draw its sustenance from the Leftist school
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July 12, 2026
Vijay? No better ideas?
Sadly, our military seems to be losing the poetic touch. Look at how we are code naming ops and projects these days
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July 05, 2026
Citizen vigilantes
Most countries don’t have citizenship cards, but then they don’t ask their people to prove their citizenship as frequently as we do
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June 28, 2026
A centennial gift for the naked dancer
A few fig-leafed pedagogues have sought to clothe the four millennia-old dancing girl of Mohenjo-daro. A few textbook writers of NCERT, who thought her nakedness a national shame, made an attempt to mask her nakedness to the satvik class nine schoolboys and girls of Bharat varsha
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June 21, 2026
Moscow’s Kabuliwala
Russia has strategically re-engaged with Afghanistan, appointing Zamir Kabulov, an envoy with deep expertise in the region, as its special representative
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June 14, 2026
The elephant in the cabinet room
Having managed the Karnataka transition well, the Congress has fouled up the aftermath
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June 11, 2026
Hit him in the rear – a masterstroke at Inchon
Frontal assault can often be foolhardy. In battle, the idea is not to display chivalry but to ensure victory using tact. And strategies of indirect approach suit the objective better. In this 23rd instalment of ‘Tactics & Tacticians’, we look at how Gen. Douglas MacArthur made a bold landing in the enemy’s rear at Inchon in Korea
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June 07, 2026
Rain, rain, stay here
Monsoon rains are produced by an interplay of In dra, Varuna and Surya
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June 04, 2026
Forts and walls don’t protect you; vigilant sentries do
Fortifications create a false illusion of security, wrote Alistaire Horne, one of Europe’s finest war historians. Throughout history, rulers have erected castles, forts, fences and walls to safeguard their manors, fiefs, kingdoms and empires. But they have all been breached when the sentries left, slept or were compromised. In this 22nd instalment of ‘Tactics & Tacticians’, we look at how some of the supposedly impregnable fortifications were easily breached
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May 31, 2026
Cockroaches in their stomachs
Looks like we may have a national insect soon. I was betting on the ubiquitous mosquito that sings us to sleep, or the housefly with which we share our sweetmeats, but the cockroach is scurrying ahead
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May 28, 2026
Shots on the roof that persuaded a surrender
At times, unnerving the enemy with minimal force yields better results than killing him with massive force. Not only does it get you general goodwill, but also allows you to claim a clean victory. In this 21st instalment of 'Tactics and Tacticians', we look at how a neat surgical air strike on Dacca yielded India a clean victory in the 1971 war
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