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Amartya Sen is arguably India's greatest living public intellectual. In 1998 he won the Nobel Prize in Economics1. His award was a matter of great pride for us Indians. But it wasn't until dad/I bought a copy of his 2005 book, The Argumentative Indian, that we became aware of just how knowledgeable Sen was about India itself, its history and its ( Read more... )

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The word Coromandel of course, an European corruption of the Tamil, Cholamandalam, or literally "The realm of the Cholas".

The Cholas were the Tamil equivalent of the Romans, a dynasty which at its peak in the 11th & 12th centuries AD, ruled an empire stretching from the Maldives to the Malay Archipelago, and including all of Southern India, parts ( Read more... )

I thought the best way to commemorate this occasion would be to share an excerpt from my favourite speech by the Father of the Nation. It was delivered on 18 March 1922 at Ahmedabad Sessions Court where Gandhi pleaded guilty to the charge of “bringing or attempting to excite disaffection towards His Majesty’s Government", an offence punishable ( Read more... )

India has the world's most number of domestic TV news channels (over 200), which shouldn't come as much of a surprise given that the quarterly report (for Jan-Mar) from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has revealed, that there are now 503 channels broadcasting in the country. This includes 147 pay channels distributed by 24 ( Read more... )

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