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Journalism of Courage

Sudheendra Kulkarni

The writer was an aide to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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Gurudakshina: what we owe to alma matersSubscriber Only

January 15,2006 00:33:54 AM

Education, it is said, is what we retain after we’ve forgotten much of what was taught in our classrooms. It is the values we learnt fr...

Sun, Jan 15, 2006

After kisan-speak, PM, Rajnath must walk the talkSubscriber Only

January 08,2006 00:00:00 AM

Those who wish to see India emerge as a developed nation in a holistic sense—prosperous, harmonious, egalitarian and culturally vibrant...

Sun, Jan 08, 2006

To one who outmeasures space, outlasts timeSubscriber Only

January 01,2006 00:00:00 AM

The new millennium’s fifth year is behind us, and the sixth has arrived — although late by a billion nanoseconds. It’s time t...

Sun, Jan 01, 2006

Merry X’mas. No, sorry, Merry Winterval!Subscriber Only

December 25,2005 00:23:35 AM

There are 196 families in the highrise building in which I live in central Mumbai, and none of them is Christian. Yet, when December arrived...

Sun, Dec 25, 2005

Imagine… a world without nuclear weaponsSubscriber Only

December 18,2005 00:00:00 AM

This December, humanity’s collective conscience reverberated with the word ‘‘Imagine’’, carrying with it a slain si...

Sun, Dec 18, 2005

Commemorating a genius and 100 years of E=mc2Subscriber Only

December 11,2005 00:00:00 AM

With the sun soon to set on 2005, I cannot resist the temptation of devoting this week’s column to a man, one of my heroes, whose memor...

Sun, Dec 11, 2005

Sensex nicks 9000, but what about Gini coefficient?Subscriber Only

December 04,2005 00:00:00 AM

The Bombay Stock Exchange is on fire, reported a pink paper last week. This incendiary event, however, was a cause for celebration, not pani...

Sun, Dec 04, 2005

Lessons in Bihar, for vanquished and victorsSubscriber Only

November 27,2005 00:00:00 AM

Despots don’t learn the ways of democracy easily. Laloo Prasad Yadav, whose party’s 15-year misrule turned Bihar into a byword for...

Sun, Nov 27, 2005

Clad in glittering clothes, begging bowl in handSubscriber Only

November 20,2005 00:00:00 AM

India lost two literary luminaries in short succession recently. Punjabi poetess Amrita Pritam effortlessly traversed the road from romantic...

Sun, Nov 20, 2005

Sheathing the sword of global jehadSubscriber Only

November 13,2005 00:00:00 AM

I am a Hindu by spiritual orientation. My faith teaches me to respect, and take the best from, Islam and every other faith on this planet. I...

Sun, Nov 13, 2005

Seeking ‘social justice’ through US interventionSubscriber Only

October 30,2005 00:00:00 AM

I consider Babasaheb Ambedkar’s address to the Constituent Assembly on November 25, 1949, the day before India gave herself a Republica...

Sun, Oct 30, 2005

Individualism, redefined, as a powerful change agentSubscriber Only

October 23,2005 00:00:00 AM

Be the change, said Mahatma Gandhi, that you want to see in the world. As precepts go, this is unquestionably one of the most difficult to f...

Sun, Oct 23, 2005

Swadheenata: Lost in translation… and in actionSubscriber Only

October 16,2005 00:00:00 AM

IT may infuriate a section of our ruling and intellectual elite to be told that the Indian mind has become much poorer today than what it wa...

Sun, Oct 16, 2005

A stonebreaker’s lesson on finding divinity in workSubscriber Only

October 09,2005 00:21:16 AM

One of the greatest lessons I learnt in development — it was also a profound experience that revitalised my Hindu roots after my commun...

Sun, Oct 09, 2005

‘Mujhe kis rang ke Mahatma Gandhi doge?’Subscriber Only

October 02,2005 00:00:00 AM

I am sure many readers won’t be able to immediately decode the meaning of the Hindi words in the title, although it refers to an all-to...

Sun, Oct 02, 2005

New India’s challenge is Old IndiaSubscriber Only

September 25,2005 00:36:35 AM

One of the greatest changes I saw during my six years in government was the rising level of ambition in a section of our businessmen. Benchm...

Sun, Sep 25, 2005

Seize the crisisSubscriber Only

September 21,2005 00:00:00 AM

Crisis, as every strong-willed leader knows, is a terrible thing to waste. L.K. Advani, the outgoing president of the BJP, has not wasted th...

Wed, Sep 21, 2005

Freedom from filthSubscriber Only

August 31,2005 00:00:00 AM

Jawaharlal Nehru, our dreaming first prime minister, has many quotable quotes to his credit. India would have been a better place if our gov...

Wed, Aug 31, 2005

Three ungodly actsSubscriber Only

July 08,2005 00:00:00 AM

A second ungodly act was committed in the godly town of Ayodhya on July 5. The first was perpetrated on December 6, 1992. And the time has c...

Fri, Jul 08, 2005

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