
January 23, 2006 02:24 IST
Way past midnight in this sleepless city’s bustling food street in Gowalmandi, the Nite Kite Shop is running up brisk business. Visitor...
Mon, Jan 23, 2006
January 18, 2006 00:00 IST
In the 12 minutes of play today, Virender Sehwag was finally conquered. By lowering skies. Sehwag and Rahul Dravid took strike just short of...
Wed, Jan 18, 2006
January 17, 2006 00:00 IST
Experience suggests that Virender Sehwag is best summed up in his own words. Nothing in his swagger or in his batting till now, till his rec...
Tue, Jan 17, 2006
January 16, 2006 00:00 IST
When the opening days of an India-Pakistan series bring just two nailbiting moments and both revolve around run out dismissals, you know lif...
Mon, Jan 16, 2006
January 15, 2006 01:23 IST
George W. should summon him for consultations. On a day when four Pakistan batsmen gave textbook presentations on how to bat for the changin...
Sun, Jan 15, 2006
January 14, 2006 01:32 IST
This dilemma was born on this ground. And it is, amidst the palpable befuddlement, only apt then that it will finally be sorted out here, in...
Sat, Jan 14, 2006
January 08, 2006 00:00 IST
There it is, the critique of military interventions — of both, the liberal, humanitarian variety as in Bosnia and the neoconservative t...
Sun, Jan 08, 2006
December 14, 2005 03:26 IST
On Saturday, December 10, precisely at 16:44:19 by one cricket writer’s watch, Sachin Tendulkar played off Chaminda Vaas to become hold...
Wed, Dec 14, 2005
November 24, 2005 00:00 IST
Multan in Punjab’s south lays magnificent claims to being South Asia’s oldest city. In its labyrinthine bazaars, they still tell s...
Thu, Nov 24, 2005
November 21, 2005 00:00 IST
A government rarely receives all its challenges in a cluster. But this could be just that kind of a week for the Congress-led coalition: the...
Mon, Nov 21, 2005
November 11, 2005 00:00 IST
• Who is Paul Volcker?He is former chairman of the American Federal Reserve, a predecessor of Alan Greenspan. In the early 80s, he was ...
Fri, Nov 11, 2005
November 06, 2005 00:00 IST
In July 1947, Dhuni Chand Mehta was transferred by the Kashmir government to Muzaffarabad as district commissioner (wazir-e-wazarat). This n...
Sun, Nov 06, 2005
October 30, 2005 00:00 IST
David Gilmour begins his account of the days and lives of men of the Indian Civil Service during the Victorian Raj by thrilling in a dose of...
Sun, Oct 30, 2005
October 03, 2005 00:00 IST
There is no softer way to say this. Sourav Ganguly has to go. Contrary to rampant wisdom, however, he must relinquish captaincy not as penan...
Mon, Oct 03, 2005
September 24, 2005 00:48 IST
For Indian democracy’s current malaise, cast your glance at the disclosures of a former KGB man. Lord Meghnad Desai, fresh from an essa...
Sat, Sep 24, 2005
September 12, 2005 00:00 IST
If you don’t know the future, you won’t know how to strategise for it. Ketan Patel, who founded and headed the Strategic Group at ...
Mon, Sep 12, 2005
September 11, 2005 00:00 IST
Alumni of a certain age hark back 20 years to the last instance when St Stephen’s College experienced scandal. In a midnight prank that...
Sun, Sep 11, 2005
August 21, 2005 00:00 IST
At its centre is the nomination of four of the young new talents of the 1980s: Salman Rushdie (Shalimar the Clown), Julian Barnes (Arthur &...
Sun, Aug 21, 2005
August 19, 2005 01:28 IST
On a map of South Asia, draw a line from Kathiwar to Gurdaspur, and you have Aitzaz Ahsan’s civilisational separation. To the west lies...
Fri, Aug 19, 2005
June 26, 2005 00:00 IST
To get a sense of this charming memoir, it is interesting to study the words of a Delhi historian and an old boy that bookend Daniel O’...
Sun, Jun 26, 2005
June 06, 2005 02:33 IST
Since ancient times Sindh has been referred to as the Land of Uncertainties, a stretch of shifting sands and rivers. Ibn Batuta referred to ...
Mon, Jun 06, 2005
June 06, 2005 02:22 IST
A day after his tribute to Mohammed Ali Jinnah made the VHP and RSS see red, BJP president L K Advani quoted Pakistan’s founder again t...
Mon, Jun 06, 2005
June 05, 2005 02:02 IST
At Karachi’s highest natural point, L K Advani, leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, paid a solemn tribute to Mohammed Ali Jinnah...
Sun, Jun 05, 2005
June 05, 2005 01:59 IST
Denis Lopes stoops over a green plastic bag. Fingering the remembrances of his schooldays, he slowly extracts a photograph. Sixty-four years...
Sun, Jun 05, 2005



