In this excerpt from his book 'Anita Gets Bail', Arun Shourie writes aboout the grandiloquence that is often part of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra's past judgements.
In the end, Pakistan would still need a new basis for its nationalism that is based on reality rather than engineered narratives of history, writes Husain Haqqani in his new book.
In this book excerpt, governor of Tripura Tathagata Roy writes about the difference between Jawaharlal Nehru and Syama Prasad Mookerjee, founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh—predecessor to the BJP.
In this excerpt from his book 'The ISIS Caliphate', The Hindu's International Affairs Editor, Stanly Johny, tries to understand what prompted 21 people from a small town in Kerala to leave India to join ISIS. Read the excerpt
In this excerpt from the book 'Seven Decades of Independent India by Vinod Rai, Dr Amitendu Palit', Professor Sumit Ganguly writes democratic institutions are deteriorating in India.
In this excerpt from her book 'Indian Extincts', Miniya Chatterji writes that stalwarts of Indian politics, literature and religion would have been declared anti-national by today's standards.
In this excerpt from 'Split', which was once banned in Bengal, Taslima Nasreen talks about the response she received for her book Lajja and the impact of BJP translating it.
In this excerpt from 'Do We Not Bleed-Reflections of a 21-st Century Pakistani', journalist Mehr Tarar writes about how India-Pakistan relations can improve
In this excerpt from 'Chup- Breaking the silence about India’s women', author Deepa Narayan talks about how women are expected take up as little space as possible.
Perhaps the present crisis and trauma can force our country into something resembling that special moment we found in the sixties. Perhaps we can radically alter our business environment.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
You say eloquence, I say verbal diarrhoea.
Such prolixity suggests an underlying inferiority complex, among other things.
Somebody should give the man a copy of Orwell’s collected works.
We were taught at school (when appearing for the Senior Cambridge examination) that the effort should be to use the simplest possible language. We should construct simple sentences without too many sub-clauses.
The objective was to enable the reader to understand easily what was sought to be conveyed. That is the way it works best.
Is Dipak Misra related to Shashi Tharoor in any way?
You say eloquence, I say verbal diarrhoea.
Such prolixity suggests an underlying inferiority complex, among other things.
Somebody should give the man a copy of Orwell’s collected works.
We were taught at school (when appearing for the Senior Cambridge examination) that the effort should be to use the simplest possible language. We should construct simple sentences without too many sub-clauses.
The objective was to enable the reader to understand easily what was sought to be conveyed. That is the way it works best.
Even India’s new poet laureate, Prasoon Joshi, would struggle to keep up with such soaring rhetoric.