M.J. Akbar

BYLINE

Editor of The Sunday Guardian, published from Delhi, India on Sunday, published from London and Editorial Director, India Today and Headlines Today

How can an Italian court murder Indian democracy?

The ancients knew their metaphors. They classified the state of a human mind into four categories, or 'humours', based on bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, melancholy and choler [or bile].

8y ago

Gandhi, Chakrayya and Ambedkar

In May 1947, Mahatma Gandhi suffered a grievous personal loss. Chakrayya, a young Dalit disciple who had served at Sevagram Ashram since its inception in 1935, died of brain tumour. He was like family; the Mahatma's grief was palpable and public.

8y ago

The way dynasties end

Success measures capability; a crisis tests an individual's or institution's maturity and resilience. Congress was hit by an explosion in

8y ago

The ears of Astronomy

As an enquiry, science has generally left me perplexed. During first encounters in school, physics was a bit of blank and chemistry

8y ago

Congress pays heavy price for GST obduracy

One can hear the silence and visualise jaw-drops in the Congress High Command drawing room at the results of a just released ABP News-Nielsen survey of the national mood. The figures speak for themselves.

8y ago

At odds with ends

A curious role reversal seized Parliament for much of last year, resulting in apoplectic fits that bode ill for the health of the institution.

8y ago

A cloudburst out of thin air

DELHI Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's outburst against the Union government after the CBI raided the offices of a member of his

9y ago

Bluff is not course correction

The bizarre is not as distant from our political discourse as we might wish it to be. There are times, however, when a

9y ago
May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016

How can an Italian court murder Indian democracy?

The ancients knew their metaphors. They classified the state of a human mind into four categories, or 'humours', based on bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, melancholy and choler [or bile].

April 17, 2016
April 17, 2016

Gandhi, Chakrayya and Ambedkar

In May 1947, Mahatma Gandhi suffered a grievous personal loss. Chakrayya, a young Dalit disciple who had served at Sevagram Ashram since its inception in 1935, died of brain tumour. He was like family; the Mahatma's grief was palpable and public.

April 3, 2016
April 3, 2016

The way dynasties end

Success measures capability; a crisis tests an individual's or institution's maturity and resilience. Congress was hit by an explosion in

February 14, 2016
February 14, 2016

The ears of Astronomy

As an enquiry, science has generally left me perplexed. During first encounters in school, physics was a bit of blank and chemistry

January 31, 2016
January 31, 2016

Congress pays heavy price for GST obduracy

One can hear the silence and visualise jaw-drops in the Congress High Command drawing room at the results of a just released ABP News-Nielsen survey of the national mood. The figures speak for themselves.

January 3, 2016
January 3, 2016

At odds with ends

A curious role reversal seized Parliament for much of last year, resulting in apoplectic fits that bode ill for the health of the institution.

December 20, 2015
December 20, 2015

A cloudburst out of thin air

DELHI Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's outburst against the Union government after the CBI raided the offices of a member of his

December 13, 2015
December 13, 2015

Bluff is not course correction

The bizarre is not as distant from our political discourse as we might wish it to be. There are times, however, when a

November 15, 2015
November 15, 2015

The deadly game of alibis

The terrorist assault on cities began in Mumbai: not Mumbai 2008, but Mumbai 1993. A series of coordinated bomb blasts in February

November 9, 2015
November 9, 2015

THE FOG OF OPINION POLLS

Perhaps Congress leaders think that things cannot get any worse after the nadir of 2014. Maybe they should think again. The reason is clear. Congress political tactics this year have floated out of the range of common sense.