Manmohan’s ten commandmentsManmohan Singh is a gentle and kindly man, not generally given to stirring up trouble. But his recent CII speech surely set the cat amongst the corporate pigeons.
May 27, 2007
The ‘ethics’ of fake encountersIf you know your history, you know that there is no such thing as a benign dictatorship. Similarly, there can be no ethical Encounter Specialists.
May 13, 2007
Mumbai needs a sea changeIt struck me as odd that in spite of the blanket coverage of the World Cup, our knowledge of the Caribbean Islands was zero: Anil Dharker.
April 29, 2007
How to police the policeThe reputation of the police in this country is at such a low point that we are all ready to believe the very worst of the department: Anil Dharker.
April 15, 2007
Can our fashion go the fiction way?Fashion shows make us think of haute couture. But couture is what we don't really have; what we have is prêt and something that’s between prêt and couture.
April 1, 2007
In defence of Sunil GavaskarThe Australian problem lies in the mindset. While Bradman was as Australian as you can get, there are no reports that he resorted to sledging.
March 19, 2007
Just ban the budgetThe problem is that all clever brains come from the same mould: they speak for you and me, and sometimes for them and them only which isn’t even you and me.
March 4, 2007
A leader’s blind spotRahul Dravid’s insistence on keeping Sehwag in the team has shut the door on one of India’s best batsman, VVS Laxman, writes Anil Dharker.
February 18, 2007
Ban the bansIn our volatile country where tiny sparks can lead to large-scale violence, governments take the easy way out and ban the book/film/play.
February 4, 2007
Do away with I&B ministryThe I&B minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi is so hyper-active, Dash Munshi better suits his penchant for flying off in every direction at once.
January 21, 2007
Sickness at NoidaThirty-eight children missing in less than three years, at least 22 of them sexually abused and murdered… Is this routine?
January 7, 2007
Jessica, yes, but Khairlanji?A middle-class victim looks better, both in press photographs and on television screens, than a poor, malnourished villager.
December 24, 2006
Importance of being ‘nice’We need to redefine ‘niceness’. Or perhaps we need to go into a philosophical discussion on the Jekyll and Hyde nature of human beings.
December 10, 2006
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