Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, India’s Missile Man, went on to become a most accessible and inspirational figure as President of India from 2002 to 2007. While we celebrate him, we must not overlook his errors of omission and commission.
A Flickr gallery of Bijoy Venugopal’s editorial cartoons.
A flood of UPA apathy isn’t really what Narendra Modi needs
The light is out, but life goes on
And then the Happy Prince delivered the demented answer that has since dented his ego and painted him black.
Protesters. Maoists. Terrorists. Idealists. Rapists. Communists. Therapists… What’s the blessed difference? None at all, intoned the Om Minister, unshaken in his trance.
Great Nero was in the midst of fiddling lessons administered by his stern and demanding Roman tutor. And then he heard it. It carried to his ears, feebly, above the din of sycophantic chanting from the courtiers and nobles. Slightly dissonant, wasn’t it?