It is useless talking to Pakistan’s civilian leaders about what happened in Mumbai. They are not in charge of that unfortunate country’s foreign policy....

Elections to the 15th Lok Sabha are only ten weeks away. Can anything be said about their outcome without the fear of being contradicted....

The distribution of the Prime Minister’s duties during his absence has been such that it ensured nobody feels overly self-important....

I celebrated the millennium’s arrival in a restaurant in Galle in Sri Lanka. An election had just taken place where I was an observer and that taught me a lot about politics in Sri Lanka....

Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah’s writ runs large over the picturesque Swat valley,reported all major papers.

Prime Minister Vajpayee’s knee got away lightly compared to Prime Minister Singh’s heart.

The Saji Mohan saga is shameful. But it also offers an opportunity for the police to cleanse itself

Raj Thackeray can erase shop signs. He can't erase Sindhi memory

The ban on smoking in films is overturned. Does free speech trump public health?

One of the first actions taken by Obama was to issue a 120-day moratorium on all trials in Guantanamo.

Pakistan’s President Zardari tells the US why they should help him

The networks,the places,and the methods of Malegaon point to a tradition of Hindu terror

Colombo must hush the triumphalism and begin a political process

In a piece titled “A plan for double digit growth” in the Republic Day issue of Organiser,R. Balashankar writes: “In these times of worldwide depression India needs a big....

As year after year passed without his getting the Nobel prize,Updike shrugged and awarded a fictional Nobel to one of his more annoying creations

Will the outrage over Mangalore finally prompt recognition of the Sangh’s woman-hating ways?

The lead editorial in the Republic Day special issue of CPM mouthpiece People’s Democracy says as the country moves into the 60th year....

Obama sets new rules for a cleaner government

Institutional thinking gets a bum rap these days,but it stands between us and our weaknesses

That China and the Obama administration have begun their engagement on a quarrelsome note on the currency issue is not necessarily an indicator....

In recent years,our public diplomacy has failed to soften the hard road

TV this week was torn between the big O and matters of the heart

Last month,Poznan,Poland,brought together about 190 countries to discuss how the world is to tackle climate change....

A case for a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict

‘Right against terror’ is a radical new formulation for constitutional law