When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that Saddam Hussein w….

When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch..

They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They….

People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-….

The time has come for everybody -capitalists, communists, socialists- to ask themselves what 'civilization' really means. If not, whether a country c….

The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so antithetical to….

At some stage, as the water tables are dropping and the minerals that remain in the mountains are being taken out, we are going to confront a crisis ….

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair..

In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual and no corpor….

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real res….

That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much..

After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people ….

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another..

The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China….

When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it's not just that they are saying, this is against Indian culture. They are also saying, ….

Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to find it more and mo….

Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states - Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not. The most radical fundamentalist….

I am very conscious that, from the time of The God of Small Things was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world ... which needs to be writ….

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of….

As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expand….

Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it wasn't just your ….