Indians in blood and colour have united, and are on a carnival of self-denial, self-denigration and self-incrimination, the like of which we have not seen raj ‘toadies’ were silenced by the fervour of the nationalist movement. There can be no other explanation for the spontaneous expressions of scorn that erupted … Read More
Louis Fischer described him as “a living sermon”. A man who preached what he dared practice must indeed have seemed so to a Europe at the end of its tether battling Nazi tyranny, yet forced to prepare for a showdown with Stalin’s gulag in the aftermath of a bitter war … Read More
When Sonia Gandhi decided to “save” the moribund, demoralized Congress party by campaigning for it in the general election earlier this year, it was popularly assumed that she was largely guided by the looming shadow of the Bofors payoff scandal. Though there was a measure of truth in this perception, … Read More
