Four years ago, I wrote in my first Needle’s Eye column that predictions about caste not dominating the 2014 elections were all hogwash. If you still believe that four years of this government have whipped up a centripetal force of development and transformation, you need to notify the I&B Ministry that you are being misled…
What can we be sure of as we head into the last four months of this year? Unless you live in one of those havens of do-nothingness, like Jhumri Talaiya in eastern India or Peoria in the middle of the United States, chances are that you are uneasy worried about the future, not sure that…
The ten-week-old agitation against reservations in Gujarat which has so far claimed 30 lives, is the second most serious agitation of its kind in the country since the Constitution was adopted in 1950. The first was in Bihar in 1978; it took 30 lives. Tamil Nadu is preparing to launch a similar agitation soon. While…