Guest Columns

“Be content with what you have, but be discontent with what you can for others”. Mr. T.K. Mathew (TK), the well-known Indian Social Entrepreneurship Pioneer, passed away in March 2025, at the age of 89. TK served India’s poor and marginalized exceptionally well for over sixty years. The small and unpromising beginning of his efforts […]

Last week I discovered my mother’s notebooks. My mother died on 15 January. Sorting through her things just recently I discovered a bunch of notepads and diaries. The notebooks, frayed at the edges and brown with age, contain hand-written personal jottings and musings. But mostly they contain long quotes from a range of authors and

I’m not sure how many people outside India know of Subhas Chandra Bose, a major leader of this country’s independence movement who, after escaping from The British Raj at the onset of WWII, set up the Provisional Government of Free India as well as the India National Army (INA) in the shadow of Japan. He

Talking about one’s own work can be challenging, and it is easier to share my thoughts in a Q&A format. I hope you will find the few minutes needed to explore the information about a book that I wrote over the span of ten years. What led you to start composing the very first poem

The young cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal articulated an important insight about our country at the end of the third Test against England, where he scored his second double-century at the tender age of 22. “In India, when you grow up, you work really hard for each and every thing,” he said when asked about his approach

This past year, the ascent of Rishi Sunak—a brown-skinned, cow-worshipping Indian—as prime minister of the UK has been enthusiastically celebrated. More strikingly, it serves as another reminder of the prominence of the Indian diaspora in the western world. This has been evident in the private sector, where executives born and raised in India have been

IF 2024 will be known as the year of seismic general elections, it will also be remembered as the one of unforgettable weddings. In India, Mumbai is still aglitter in the after-glow of the wedding of Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. The festivities spread over weeks of uncapped extravagance. The total

President Joe Biden insists that he is still running. He has not said in which direction. He needs to decide quickly before someone makes up his mind for him. Some expect the Democrat party to push him over the edge. Others that his medical team may advise him against subjecting himself to the rigour of

On 13th of October 2023, when the untimely passing is K. S. Sachindanda Murthy (known in media circles as Sachi) was announced, in my lifetime I have never seen the media react in such a manner. Almost every newspaper and magazine in India covered his life and contribution to journalism. My maternsl grandfather, K. C.