The public apology by the commercially challenged MF Hussain has not just salvaged his proposed film project with cinestar Madhuri Dixit, but also quieted public passions on the sensitive issue. However, Hussain’s unexpected capitulation before the “watch-dogs of a political-religious outfit” must have come as a setback to the artists, … Read More
As was only to be expected, our breast-beating Cassandras have once again been proved wrong, and the worst of international hostility to India’s unexpected decision to go nuclear is already behind us. Even as opposition parties, leftists, secular intellectuals, and peaceniks got the knives out for the Vajpayee Government in … Read More
It is an irony that as the secular condemnation of the ransacking of Maqbool Fida Husain’s Mumbai residence reaches a crescendo, saner voices in the Muslim community are being edged out of the debate. As self-styled liberals and defenders of artistic freedom jostle for centrespace in what could have been … Read More
Ms Sonia Gandhi has clearly decided not to repeat the mistakes of her ancient compatriot, Julius Caesar. Indeed, the alacrity with which she has accepted the Congress crown brings to mind the wisdom of another Italian notable and his rather acute observation: “Men more readily forgive the murder of their … Read More
