
May 12, 2004 00:00 IST
By afternoon, Cyberabad’s CEO had been shown the door. At its outpost in the national capital, the regime change had widened the cracks...
Wed, May 12, 2004
May 05, 2004 00:00 IST
When all the din and the glare is in Madhepura and Chapra, why care about a kirana shop in a tiny West Bengal town? But talk to the owner a...
Wed, May 05, 2004
April 25, 2004 00:00 IST
The BJP is said to have claimed to the Election Commission that the party had nothing to do with the sari-distribution that killed over 20 w...
Sun, Apr 25, 2004
April 19, 2004 00:00 IST
In the years Nalbari fed the ULFA ranks, Pratul Narayan Chaudhary worried for his son. All around, boys from farmer homes, unable to find jo...
Mon, Apr 19, 2004
April 13, 2004 00:00 IST
Sylvia's home has no taps. So twice every day, she walks almost a kilometre to the point where we met her because that’s where the only...
Tue, Apr 13, 2004
November 19, 2003 00:00 IST
In little Sairang, at the gates of Aizawl, three young men have just wrapped up the day’s campaign. But the worry’s showing: ‘...
Wed, Nov 19, 2003
August 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Ayodhya's enfant terrible, the Parivar’s pointman, the temple movement’s leading light... you could play with words to describe Ra...
Fri, Aug 01, 2003
July 27, 2003 00:00 IST
His son’s been gone four years. But there’s not a day when he doesn’t speak to him, turning to his picture and cracking jokes...
Sun, Jul 27, 2003
July 20, 2003 00:00 IST
When Mohammed Afzal graduated from Darul-Uloom, he thought he had seen the last of Deoband. He was headed, after all, for the big cities of ...
Sun, Jul 20, 2003
July 17, 2003 00:00 IST
In his dingy room at Darul-Uloom, second only to Cairo’s Al Azhar in the list of Islam’s hallowed seminaries, Mohammed Afzal shake...
Thu, Jul 17, 2003
July 09, 2003 00:00 IST
To get some sense of why the Shankaracharya’s second letter—the one where he said Muslims ‘‘have’’ to hand ove...
Wed, Jul 09, 2003
July 03, 2003 00:00 IST
When he turned 19 six days ago, they organised a little celebration in Dharamsala for Ogyen Thinley Dorjee. But this wasn’t the way he ...
Thu, Jul 03, 2003
April 14, 2003 00:00 IST
Two weeks after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Inder Kumar Gujral took a circuitous route to Baghdad. Grappling with the prob...
Mon, Apr 14, 2003
March 31, 2003 00:00 IST
The BJP-led coalition government at the Centre has completed five years. This is indeed a spectacular achievement because of the unique resi...
Mon, Mar 31, 2003
January 24, 2003 00:00 IST
The Centre may have succeeded in persuading the NSCN (I-M) to meet another day at another place but it will now have to take into confidence...
Fri, Jan 24, 2003
January 23, 2003 00:00 IST
If the Centre were to make peace with Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah, it would have dealt a body blow to insurgency in the region. B...
Thu, Jan 23, 2003
January 20, 2003 00:00 IST
For more than 40 years, Ukhrul saw off bands of Tangkhul boys into the Burmese jungles to wage a war against the Indian ‘‘occupati...
Mon, Jan 20, 2003
January 20, 2003 00:00 IST
With the Centre unwilling to disclose details of the progress being made in talks with NSCN (IM) leaders, who have long staked claim to the ...
Mon, Jan 20, 2003
January 19, 2003 00:00 IST
Twelve to a Tata Sumo and an hour after exiting Kohima, we crossed the border to arrive at Mao Songsang, the gateway to Manipur on the NH 39...
Sun, Jan 19, 2003
January 10, 2003 00:00 IST
For the Pravasi Bharatiya, the welcome home was typically Indian. Queuing up on a cold, grey morning, they warmed up to Delhi’s securit...
Fri, Jan 10, 2003
December 14, 2002 00:00 IST
Long after the leaders had gone, two men from the Parliament Watch and Ward stood staring at the portraits that lined the wall between gates...
Sat, Dec 14, 2002
November 18, 2002 00:00 IST
The developments in Gujarat, where the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has already set the pace for the assembly elections next month, and drought hol...
Mon, Nov 18, 2002
September 22, 2002 00:00 IST
The Right Honourable James Hacker, MP and Minister for Administrative Affairs, could rarely realise any of his brainwaves on changing the fa...
Sun, Sep 22, 2002
September 14, 2002 00:00 IST
Chatting with Pak journalists in Washington a week ago, US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage slipped in two statements: ‘‘...
Sat, Sep 14, 2002
July 26, 2002 00:00 IST
With angry MPs shedding political loyalties to take stock of the situation stemming from drought and floods in the country, the Centre and I...
Fri, Jul 26, 2002


