RIP Arun Tikekar: The thinker's editor

  Mahesh Vijapurkar pays tribute to Aroon Tikekar, journalist, historian, author and an important intellectual voice of Mumbai, who passed into the ages on Tuesday. What was Aroon Tikekar,......

BJP's message: Shiv Sena no longer holds the trump card

The Bharatiya Janata Party prefers to simply overlook the Shiv Sena's swipe and this has sent the latter into a sulk. Sanjay Jog reports.   The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its junior......

'I was there, 45 years ago, when the Telangana agitation started'

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

'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......

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......

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......

The unresolved whodunits of urban real estate

The real estate business thrives on creating excess spaces beyond the permitted building codes, short-changing the buyer, and even opting for poorer quality of material. This finds an enthusiastic......

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......