Ashok Malik

Jan 27, 2011
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Ashok Malik can be contacted at malikashok@gmail.com

Khurshid & Macaulay

There are charges of corruption against a charitable trust run by Salman Khurshid, Congress MP and India’s law minister, and his wife.

Lost in Siren City

This past week’s Robert Vadra controversy laid bare the incestuous and unedifying relationships between the capital’s political and business (and occasionally media) elites.

The speech the Prime Minister never gave

How does one respond to Manmohan Singh’s speech of September 21, the first time a Prime Minister has devoted an entire address to the nation to explaining economic policy? For many, the very fact that Dr Singh spoke at all was both telling and tellingly reassuring.

A stronger Uncle Sam

Eleven years have passed since 9/11, and they have not been kind to America. The war in Afghanistan did not go as planned. The quick decapitating of the Taliban regime — Kabul was liberated as early as November 2001 — was misleading.

A Very Very Special Indian batsman

V.V.S. Laxman’s retirement from international cricket is remarkable not just because it ends an individual career or takes us one step closer to the final flourish of Indian cricket’s “Greatest Generation”, but more so because it signals the finishing line for the last lot of Indians who exclusively valued Test cricket.

India’s naval mission in the deep blue sea

Addressing the media earlier this week, Adm. Nirmal Verma, chief of the Indian Navy, spelt out the broad contours of India’s maritime doctrine.

A twist in diplomacy

Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan is not his first to that country. He was there in 2007 as well, shortly after a trip to Singapore. In the intervening years he has travelled to China.

Will economics unseat the great economist?

This past week, economists Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya wrote a syndicated article titled, “The bell tolls for India’s Congress Party.” They said that the Congress-led UPA government had bee

Will economics unseat the great economist?

This past week, economists Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya wrote a syndicated article titled, “The bell tolls for India’s Congress Party.” They said that the Congress-led UPA government had been “ineffectual” and that this would hurt the party in the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

Zindagi ke safar mein guzar jaate hain...

In that period, he was extraordinarily popular. His “Punjabi boy next door” looks made him a rage among sections of female fans.

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