Macaulay’s orphans
There were two distinct messages from last month’s assembly elections in Bihar. The first centred on the remarkable ability of the Bharatiya Janata Party and, by implication, the National Democratic…
150 years later, why the Vande Mataram debate is still relevant
Some years ago, a perceptive British writer observed that his country was sharply polarised between the ‘somewhere’ people and those who could be dubbed the ‘anywhere’ people. In a curious…