Category "Advice"

Two forests. One pattern. And a country pretending it’s not connected.

If you want to understand how “development” actually works in India, don’t listen to speeches. Watch what happens to forests that don’t have PR teams. Hasdeo Arand in Chhattisgarh and the Aravalli range across Rajasthan–Haryana–Delhi–Gujarat tell the same story in two different accents. One is a dense, living forest that...

Why Congress Is Afraid of Shashi Tharoor — And Why That Fear Says More About Congress Than About Him

There is a strange silence in Indian politics right now. And silence, in Congress, is never accidental. Shashi Tharoor moves freely. He meets people. He speaks globally. He writes, lectures, represents India abroad, comments on diplomacy, culture, economy—often sounding more like India’s unofficial foreign minister than an MP from Thiruvananthapuram....