Punjab’s farmers are doing better elsewhere than in own State: Any idea, Sirji?

Once again, like last winter, a major arterial road into and out of Delhi is blocked. This time by farmers from nearby, who first blocked their own railway lines, and...

Ahmed Patel and his links to the 12th Road, the most important one in The Game

Here in India, we say good things about anybody and everybody who passes on to the next world, and there is no exception on Ahmed Patel or Ahmedbhai Mohammedbhai Patel of...

Atal Tunnel: When prepaid media didn’t exist and tourists were not invented

Somewhere in the noise in the prepaid mainstream media has been drowned out the actual revival of an ancient trade and pilgrimage route. Now an important 3rd axis land...

Mumbai is in news for all the wrong reasons: But then nobody told you about “Gateway”

This article was supposed to carry forward the previous read about the Delhi Gymkhana with one on the Breach Candy Club in Mumbai, but went off into an...

Who, what and how is Indian Express? A world beyond Ramnath Goenka

Jimmy Lai's arrest in Hong Kong is an attack on free speech if you read the Anglo-Saxon media. 

35 years ago, “Mandir Wahin Banayenge” on a wall, that got me started

About 35 years ago, I was asked to visit Lucknow on some work pertaining to inland cargo movements for imports and exports, and landed up there to meet up with an...

Hindus first lose lives; and then the narrative

Every Independence Day fills me with sadness and anger. For the day next is August 16, albeit of 1946, when the Muslim League government of the day in undivided Bengal provoked...