Opinion & Edits

Why it is important for classrooms to learn to transgress

India’s new digital rules are bad news for democracy

No classroom is monolingual. Our education policies must reflect this

Indo-US partnership holds the key to checking China

Great expectations

The Congress’s sweep to victory has sparked fresh hope of repairing bridges between India and Pakistan…

Where east and west meet

Agenda for Dr Singh’s new term: the long overdue strategic outreach to the Muslim world

Speaking out,finally

What a turnaround in five years! Though the Indian Muslim may have seemed adrift and divided…

In translation

Shekhar Gupta’s article ‘On the wall,off the road’ made valid points against Mulayam and Paswan’s ideology…

How to be a Pappu

“What’s the secret of Naveen Patnaik’s success?” is the question I’ve been asked innumerable times in the past week,almost always by friends outside Orissa.

When Prakash Mehra met Amitabh Bachchan

Our movies have moved on,but the ‘angry young man’ defined two decades of Hindi cinema

WHO gets what role

India is playing for high stakes in a public health
and innovation treaty. It musn’t blink

The verdict

Congratulations to the common people of this country who,instead of being hostage to some political parties…

Mask upon mask in the BJP

No wonder it is confused now.The BJPs’s multiple personality disorder stems from its very origins.

The 100th Test

Last month,in dusty Moradabad,where narrow by-lanes mingle homogenously with crowded,open markets,I rediscovered a forgotten subject from almost a decade ago.

Look who’s all grown up now

America was always wearing a big smile when it strode into our living room in damp and ghostly England…

A joyless election

The editorial in the latest issue of Organiser,titled “To reclaim the fun and frolic of electioneering”…

Closure in Sri Lanka

The curtain has at last fallen on the blood-drenched saga of Velupillai Prabhakaran’s life as the uncompromising head of LTTE.

Yesterday once more?

As Muslim voters begin to return to the Congress after 20 years,a recap of the friends and foes they met

Remembering reform

We lost Rajiv Gandhi on May 21 more than a decade and a half ago; he was in active politics for barely a decade.

We’ll be back

The latest issue of CPM mouthpiece People’s Democracy went to print before the election results were out and obviously the comrades could not read the writing on the wall….

Decisive mandate

Roadblocks to progress like the Left parties and the Lalu-Mulayam duo have been removed from the path of development by popular mandate….

The rumours and the relief

The LTTE’s gone. But can reconstruction unite Sri Lanka?

Three more reforms,Dr Singh

Fix education,police and judiciary,and NREGA — and your legacy’s defined

Learning from the ltte

Insurgent groups must learn to ultimately transition from terror tactics to politics

What a difference a day made

This election,TV was groping in the dark — but it was fun anyway

What are you calling a ‘historic mandate’?

The Congress win was just a vote for continuity

No one to speak for this city

Once again,Karnataka’s election was at cross-purposes with the national vote

Floating with anchors

Sober,flagging,charged up and overcharged