A lot has happened in a week’s time. At home we’ve had a horrific aeroplane accident that killed 158 people. It was weird enough to be called a freak. It’s a bizarre situation when a plane lands and runs out of runway. While the investigating agencies are decoding the information... [More]

Most of the Indians dailies greeted the nation on May 7 to banner headlines that invariably read that Kasab/Kasav/Qasab was to hang to death. Most of the people in the nation would have sighed in relief and justifiably so as after all the special court in Mumbai had given its verdict on a person who... [More]

Whatever you might say of Ajmal Amir Kasab’s stunning turnaround yesterday, it truly is worthy of Bollywood. If I were Ram Gopal Verma or Mahesh Bhatt, I would be kicking myself in anger, or envy, or simply be writing out the borrowed script as fast as I could. Maybe Kasab is the innocent star... [More]

We are not just ‘soft’ on terror, a charge often leveled against the UPA government by the BJP. We are a soft nation. We deal with earthquakes and floods the same way we deal with terror. We are an argumentative people and can seldom agree on something. Even terror can’t goad us in... [More]