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Indians are innately boisterous. Celebration and gaiety are in our blood. We find occasions to celebrate and make a great show of routine and small matters. From passing an exam, to celebrating birthdays and anniversaries,..

Seeing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as the Chief Guest on this Republic Day brought back memories of my meeting with Brazilian President Lula da Silva when he had visited India in 2004 as the chief guest on the Republic Day…

There is widespread dissatisfaction about the service sector. Complaints about bad plumbing, shoddy repairs, incompetence and rudeness of workmen are commonplace. Coaching centres and competitive exams make up the new education model. In hospitals, treatment is structured around packages…

Year 2020 is bringing with it a feeling of déjà vu. In the 1990s, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was writing a book on how India could become a developed country and how long it would take…

In India, we see Telecom as a money machine entangled with scams and schemes. Those who walked into free 4G are now being asked to pay…

India is celebrated as a democracy by large numbers of Indians. We are the world’s largest democracy. We place ourselves in the company of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany and many other democratic countries. There are problems in Pakistan but there is fully functional democracy in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka….

Until a few years ago, it was called fog, when the cold moisture hung in the air reducing visibility. Flight and train delays…

In my mid-sixties now, I can claim to have seen the four generations starting with that of my parents, born before independence. Few would make it to …

Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum in their 2011 book ‘That Used to be Us’ described five pillars of prosperity that together made…

On the surface, V.S. Naipaul’s book India: A Wounded Civilization, seems negative. But when I read it again, in the course of my writing India 3.0, I realised the depth of Naipaul’s writing…