Opinion & Edits

Governments must understand that resources are held in trust. They’re not to be frittered away

Chief Ministers ought to create high wage jobs, and not borrow money future generations will have to repay

The West must not test Putin’s resolve

It would be unwise on the part of Biden and the Western alliance to escalate the Ukrainian crisis by waging a proxy war with Russia.

What the two-front war in Ukraine means for the world

Chethana Raj's death: Our entertainment industry can't brush gender issues under the carpet

Green roots of recovery

India must rethink its long-term growth strategy and reduce its focus on exports

US and the Pak Army: the mirage of civilian control

As Pakistan debates the US economic aid package of $ 7.5 billion over the next five years,we have a paradox.

Why this column deserves the Nobel

Beautiful thoughts,wondrous words. What more is needed?

Post-post-Mandal

In UP and Bihar the effort is on to create new social coalitions

Growing technology

Drought-proofing India needs us to get moving on bio-tech….

Do it right

The appointment of an independent technical review committee of foreign experts to oversee preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games….

Did yesterday change anything?

Regional imbalances in Maharashtra have been discussed and debated endlessly in almost every kind of forum.

Widen the base

As China and India struggle to stabilise their wobbly relationship — the latest bump comes from Beijing’s protest against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh…

View from the LEFT

In the light of India’s continued downward slide in the ranking of the Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Programme…

Agency to GHQ

Has the Rawalpindi attack expedited the Pakistan army’s South Waziristan offensive?….

Warming up the code

Reforming Muslim law answers the call for a uniform civil code….

Wish him well

This refers to the editorial ‘Because he can?’ and Harsh Pant’s ‘What were they thinking?’…

The issues in an ‘issueless’ election

To say that the Maharashtra Assembly elections will be a replay of Lok Sabha 2009 is to display huge ignorance and even indifference about…

Caucasus talk

Peace. Everyone has been talking about it lately. Sitting in the back of her limousine,Hillary Clinton did her bit for peace as well— and with what results.

Reality check

T.S. Eliot once famously wrote,“humankind/Cannot bear very much reality”. Indian TV producers obviously don’t read poetry. For,they don’t just bear reality,they wallow in it like a sow does in a mud bath.

Vulgar is as vulgar does

The recent debate regarding unacceptably high corporate salaries has been engaging as well as somewhat surprising. It is therefore important that the context be understood.

Call to arms

Apropos of your editorial ‘Only violence’ (IE,October 8),although perfect parallels cannot be drawn between the LTTE and the Maoists in India…

The art of insuring

The things for India to pick up from the US healthcare debate

The audacity of jokes

The Nobel has succeeded in making Obama a target for mockery. That must worry him….

Haryana’s in the bag — for now

Even before the game began,the Opposition parties in Haryana (BJP,INLD,HJC and BSP) began to realise that the race for 90 seats in the Haryana Assembly is almost closed.

‘I am like a woodpecker. I keep chipping away at corruption’

In an Idea Exchange moderated by Editor,Investigations,Ritu Sarin,Central Vigilance Commissioner Pratyush Sinha talked about the Commission’s role,its relationship with the CBI and the need to protect the security of whistleblowers….

All you need is ELA balance

Travelling with MindTree’s gardener Subroto Bagchi the other day,he reminded me of a tea-break tête-à-tête 12 years ago,when we had met in Bangalore….

India under seige

This week I would have liked to write about some peacetime subject like the Environment Ministry’s latest efforts to clean the Ganga or the World Bank’s new report….

The Enemy Within

THE Naxalite movement is at last raising serious alarm. This is a movement that has been around for over 40 years ever since Charu Mazumdar raised the banner in Naxalbari….