'44 yeas ago, Telangana was but a dream, today it's in the last lap'

Mahesh Vijapurkar was a student in Hyderabad when the Telangana agitation began, with Osmania University as its epicentre. With the new state finally set to become a reality, he looks back on the......

Mumbai, no longer a citizen's city

Mahesh Vijapurkar laments the decay and decline of India's premier city. The chaos that Mumbai experienced in the first three days of this monsoon speaks volumes about how the city is run, or put......

Why Hazare's Hisar ploy is deliberately misunderstood

We don't know what kind of a beast the Lokpal Bill would turn out to be. Nor, for that matter, what shape it would take when processed by Parliament. It could well be constitutional, perhaps even......

View: MPs have to justify that people are wrong

If what is said about them is only a perception, then lawmakers ought to bother about it and correct it by deeds, writes Mahesh VijapurkarIf I were to justify Kiran Bedi or Om Puri for their......

Bullet trains? First change the stinky coaches and stations

Amid all the changes that Railways has undergone over the decades, one thing has been constant - untidy stations and malodourous trains, says  Mahesh Vijapurkar.There are four categories of......

Of Borge's death and why fear is the key

In Bharat Borge's death by allegedly by suicide, the world has missed the wood for the trees. To me, how Borge died -- under a train when pushed, fell, tripped, et cetera -- is incidental. Taking......

Ho-hum, so the Lok Sabha discussed black money, what's new?

Can a corrupt revenue system be trusted to keep confidences when oodles of money are involved, asks Mahesh Vijapurkar The other day, when Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani moved an......

Road projects, flyovers: A major scandal?

Mahesh Vijapurkar smells a scandal in the BOT model for road projects. I am beginning to suspect that construction of road and related infrastructure like flyovers and bridges in out country could......