You cannot refuse to eat out of American hands, whatever they might choose to feed you. They know what is good for you. If they think that Iraqi oil should be their property or the property of some...
Of Life, Letters and Politics
Maharashtra evidently does not need its heroes. The birth centenary of Gopal Mukund Huddar has come and gone with scarcely anyone remembering him. From being a 'sarkaryawaha' of the RSS, Huddar went...
India and China cannot hope to strike it big in terms of cooperation unless they agree on what constitutes India and China - which is not the same thing as the detailed working out of the border...
There are two major bodies mainly of writers and theatre people to 'manage' the affairs relating to literature and theatre in the land of the Marathas. It is less than clear what exactly these...
It was the Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav and the RJD of Laloo Prasad Yadav that were responsible for the tragic denouement of the Women's Representation Bill. It is difficult to see why the...
The National Board of Secondary Education has obviously not heard of Premchand and so when it found that a book by him had been prescribed for one of its courses, it promptly had it removed. But when...
The so-called liberal view of nuclear programmes and proliferation is hopelessly out of touch with reality. It is also completely non-political. It looks at nuclear weapons as weapons. Kim Jong-II of...
The BJP seems to have seen the weaknesses of the secular parties and is determined to take every advantage of them. The greatest of these weaknesses is the inability to devise a new discourse.
The odyssey of a poem published in a Marathi little magazine almost 20 years ago has landed us in a moment of guilty introspection.
As long as China is unwilling to make some bold and imaginative decisions the periodical exchanges between the officials of the two countries will not be fruitful. This requires a political...
A play was staged in this year's Ganesh festival in Delhi. The speaker of the Lok Sabha seemed to have liked it. Soon after the play was done in Mumbai. The current culture expert in the capital city...
The judiciary does not make a revolution. It is not its job to do so. It maintains order of sorts. If that order has to be changed, the field of action is somewhere else. The liberal dilemma consists...
There have been three major appropriations of Lord Ganesha in the history of Pune. The first was by the peshwas. The second was when Lokamanya Tilak started the Ganeshotsava in 1893. The sublime is...
Under the NDA government a small question becomes a life-anddeath question while genuinely large questions are of no interest to any of the alliance partners. The alliance is threatened because a...
While opposing the naming of the airport at Port Blair after Veer Savarkar, the Leftists could and should have argued that Savarkar was no patriot and nationalist. Anyone who writes a book like the...
