Third Wave West 1: Fertile Crescent of Mathematics
After the first two waves out of India to Eurasia and Europe, there was a third wave roughly 5000 years ago that carried mathematical ideas to West Asia and Egypt, eventually reaching Greece. This westward movement More...
Beyond 2012: The old order changeth
The 1912 elections are a preview of the coming crumbling feudal political order put together by Jawaharlal Nehru and his political heirs. The country is on the verge of a major political overhaul. Dynastic rule More...
Modi phenomenon and the two Indias
Modi is seen as the leader by doers and achievers while he is hated by hangers on with colonial values who depend on patronage from the ruling family calling itself the Congress. They fear having to live in a world More...
Indian state vote may be first step to Modi versus Gandhi face-off
Report by Ross Colvin and Satarupa Bhattacharjya, NEW DELHI | Wed Dec 12, 2012 4:40pm EST (Reuters) – India’s Gujarat state will hold a potentially game-changing vote on Thursday that could help decide More...
Goodbye yesterday, welcome tomorrow
Column by M.J. Akbar One of the minor games of public life is decoding the difference between what a politician says and what he means. Bal Thackeray, who founded the cadre-based Shiv Sena in 1966, and nurtured More...
Darlymple joins Karnad’s ‘Hate Naipaul Campaign’
Girish Karnad cannot hold a candle to V.S. Naipaul as a writer. His attacking Naipaul at a major literary event is an attempt to step out of obscurity and gain some limelight that his talent does not merit. Dalrymple More...
With no reforms, India’s bulls get edgy: J.P.Morgan
A bronze sculpture of a bull is seen on the premises of BSE building in Mumbai Reuters Market Eye – Stock bulls in India “are now getting edgy” according to a J.P.Morgan report on Friday, as the More...
Tribhuvandas Patel & Making of AMUL
While sixty years of ‘planning’ by the Planning Commission has been an expensive failure, the grassroots approach taken by Tribhuvandas Patel has made India milk abundant. As India goes solar, it should learn More...
Modi and the Mahatma, who was more guilty?
Narendra Modi after Godhra and Mahatma Gandhi after the Khilafat were forced to deal with the violent aftermath. But there are striking differences between the way the two dealt with them. Also, Modi had nothing More...
The dilemma of departure
Column by M.J. Akbar What is happening to Pranab Mukherjee is cruel but not unusual. It happens to Popes, editors and chief executives as much as to former finance ministers. The Vatican does not advertise the More...
