About N Madhavan

Narayanan Madhavan is a columnist and editor with HT Business, who has covered everything from economic reform, technology, politics and the Kargil war to Bollywood and cricket in a long journalistic career.

Filmstars have to shoot
Thieves have to scoot
Teachers have to teach
Preachers have to preach [Read more]

It is not easy to elect a Prez
When a coalition is under stress
There’s this camp and that camp
in the race to pick a rubber stamp [Read more]

In a business famous for scams
There are moments that turn glam
When a movie idol or a sporting star
Joins lawmakers from near and far [Read more]

They are back like a Bollywood sequel,
It seems in an embrace of equals
One is an Anna and the other a Baba
Like they were the Beatles or Abba [Read more]

It’s in the nature of the nation
That we revel in sensations
And what better way to blow a fuse
Than rustle up some spooky news! [Read more]