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.

The auctioned are bought, or so we thought
But it seems they are not, instead they’re caught
Oh, this is no longer the way we were taught
Those bought over it seems can still play the spot [Read more]

In a land famous for powerful generals
It’s time now for political funerals
And rebirths perhaps, as rebirths are
When polling gives rise to new stars [Read more]

One group is in trouble over huge deposits
In comes another in the mess on lost chits
Poor savers languish in a web of fancy
In the land visited by the likes of Ponzi [Read more]

Dear Lord of the Arrow, take a bow
Two decades ago, you stole the show
For a fact that seemed so simple
That they wanted to build you a temple [Read more]

Catfights are for Bollywood bitches
Streetfights, it seems, fit cricket pitches
As if fixing was just not enough
The field now sees some fisticuffs [Read more]