Politicians just don’t get the pointThe fears of a backlash from well-meaning, well-heeled but utterly clueless folk receded after the polling date in Mumbai last Thursday.
May 4, 2009
Guantanamo happens everyday in IndiaIt should not come as a surprise that many of us would not like to pay attention to the CIA memos about torture methods used in Guantanamo.
April 20, 2009
Good political move for the middle classParliament can become a meaningful forum only when we hear dissenting voices of informed people.
April 6, 2009
The primary colours of hate speechMost of us recoil in horror at the real implication of the freedom of expression. There are limits to expression of hatred as there are limits of freedom of expression itself.
March 23, 2009
The market economy is the BJP’s Achilles heelIt is received wisdom that no one has won or lost an election on economic issues. This is the assumption among those who are in the political pit.
March 9, 2009
Foreigners are welcome. Jai ho!Slumdog provides us the sweet tale in the heaven of imagination woven from the pleasing cultural mix of a British film based on an Indian story.
February 23, 2009
Unknowingly the Congress party has changedThe Congress has changed irrevocably and substantially, and the people most unaware of it are the party apparatchik.
February 10, 2009
Beyond slash-and-burn capitalismThe mantra that captains of industry chant nowadays is that government must provide a stimulus package to revive the economy slipping into a recession.
January 25, 2009
Palestine needs a strategy for peaceIt may seem heartless to reprimand people who are voicing their anger and anguish out of sheer helplessness
January 13, 2009
Huntington has the last laughIt became the catch-phrase of the 1990s — ‘clash of civilisations’. Samuel Huntington, the Harvard don who coined it, died at Martha’s Vineyard on Saturday.
December 29, 2008
The patriot riddleThe Indian government has created a flutter with its decision that only citizens can represent the country in international sporting events.
December 27, 2008
India can’t play neighbourhood sheriffThey were here in 2002. They are here in 2008. On both occasions, it has been in the wake of terror attack. Now, it is after the Mumbai attack.
December 15, 2008
‘Attacking Pakistan will not solve terrorism’Former foreign secretary and former Indian envoy to the United States, Lalit Mansingh does not think that military action against Pakistan is a good or feasible idea.
December 6, 2008
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