Opinion & Edits

Is there a vaccination strategy?

Reviving Ambedkar through his writings

Of hoarders and their clutter

A brand new ‘hot plate’, an old-fashioned device that predates the ubiquitous microwave to keep food hot on dining tables.

Pandemic is an opportunity to examine our education system

Cinema can be injurious to your health

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

Ethics,above all

Barack Obama has announced good policies and has begun his presidency in earnest ‘Spelling out change’.

Twilight at Gitmo

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

Obama’s South Asia challenge

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

He’s beautiful,he’s brilliant,he’s boring

Shreya Chakravertty
The keywords ‘federer,boring’ on a web search throw up 173,000 links.

A running thread of deep saffron

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

Next steps

Colombo must hush the triumphalism and begin a political process

A great leap forward

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….

Updike at rest

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

Sexual politics

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

Let it rest

Is it not a bygone issue as detailed by the Mahajan Commission in the ‘60s? Unfortunately,Maharashtra politicians are re-opening a Pandora’s Box prior to the elections….

Post(er)-script

Harneet Singh | FULLY FILM
THE story goes that when Akshay Kumar asked director Nikhil Advani for the script of Chandni Chowk To China (CC2C) he showed him the movie poster.

The Demographic Dividend

Yoginder K Alagh | CHARWAK
Goldman Sachs produced a model where economic growth is driven by the demand of an expanding and younger workforce.

Discordant notes

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

Spelling out change

Obama sets new rules for a cleaner government

Living by the rules

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

Staring down Obama

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

India’s smart card

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

India and the Third Parties: From Miliband to Holbrooke

C. Raja Mohan | RAJA-MANDALA
Mention the word ‘third party’ in the context of Pakistan or Kashmir and India gets hot under the collar. Over the last few days,we saw New Delhi mercilessly hammer the British Foreign Secretary Foreign Secretary David Miliband for his comments (childish?) on Kashmir.

Do we need annual Republic Day parade?

Coomi Kapoor | BLOG BYTES
In this day and age,do we need an annual Republic Day parade to flex our military muscles?

The anatomy lesson

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

‘Obama’s climate change push is significant but far from enough’

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

This land is your land,this land is their land

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

Deliver us from fear

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