Thomas Friedman

What ails America: Tom Friedman's diagnosis of a superpower in crisis

What do you get when you put globalisation's biggest cheerleader, Thomas Friedman on the same stage as India's most articulate left-leaning intellectual, Pratap Bhanu Mehta? A surprising absence of disagreement.

Mumbai Litfest: I was wrong; the world is flatter than I thought, says Friedman

At the opening day of the Mumbai Litfest, Friedman was here defending a book he wrote six years ago. He maintains the world is flattening, in ways both good and bad.

Peace Kebab: Pakistan, India and the politics of trade

Trade and security interests operate in parallel universes. And unless Pakistan stops trading in jihadi terror,'peace dividend' will remain a distant dream.

Mumbai Literature Live!: Everything you wanted to know

Mumbai's lit fiesta is back in its second year, but it's small-scale, and peppered with big names for good measure.

Thrill-lust and a game without soul: Let’s save cricket from its fans

After the Faustian deal between cricket and the Devil at the auction table four years ago, the game is no more the same. The dil maange more philosophy driving the IPL and Twenty20 cricket is killing the game’s beauty and vitality. Worse, it seems cricket can no more produce another Sachin Tendulkar.