By Inderjit Badhwar
Perhaps one of the most disturbing essays I have read in recent months is Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s “Big Brother Is Winning”. Mehta, whom I often find abstruse and prolix, argues thi...
~By Inderjit Badhwar
Starting with this issue of India Legal our fortnightly takes on a new avatar—we go weekly. The transition, long in the making, is logical and necessary. In the three years tha...
Arun Shourie is not only a journalist, as most Indians see him, but also a towering man of letters, a former BJP Union minister, and at one time, Narendra Modi’s political confidant and supporter. Tod...
When the re-launch architects of India Legal began framing the editorial parameters of this magazine three years ago—in January 2014—we struggled to come up with a tagline to define a stand-alone iden...
By Inderjit Badhwar
I have just returned from a 600-km reportorial road trip, accompanied by a camera crew from India Legal’s sister concern, APN NEWS, after covering a part of UP’s Rohilkhand area...
As a young lad, I was glued, among other writers, especially to George Orwell. He was a good teacher. And the lesson which remains indelibly printed in my mind is to be wary of leaders and politicia...
My colleague Dilip Bobb, now senior managing editor of India Legal, and I had just wound up a popular talk show on APN news channel, our sister concern, on the day that Narendra Modi conducted what hi...
The two big headline-grabbing stories of the past week were the family feud in the ruling Yadav clan in Lucknow and the equally disturbing move by the Tata Group to sack its chairman, Cyrus Mistry, fo...
The most popular cliché about India is that it is a land of extremes. That generally refers to the rural-urban rich-poor chasm but in the wake of the Uri attack, it has come to signify something quite...
Facebook posts and strategic pundits have been obsessed with how best to punish Pakistan for its support to the terrorists’ attack in India, the latest such horrific incident being the murder on India...