Opinion & Edits

What wins votes today is ‘trust capital’

The message from the government’s wheat export ban

Decolonising science in Indian education

Can there be justice in the 2019 Hyderabad encounter case?

Smile please,shake hands

Obama,Netanyahu,Abbas met,but it was mere protocol….

‘Dadasaheb Phalke’s passion,Indian cinema’s foundation’

Paresh Mokashi,director of India’s Oscar entry ‘Harishchandrachi Factory’,tells ALAKA SAHANI why things are…

Explosive disclosures

The latest disclosures in the Sunday Times by British correspondent Simon Henderson (September 20,2009),quotes excerpts from…

Austerity: at what cost?

Jamaat-e-Islami’s Daawat,in its editorial on September 19,writes: “Highlighting the need for austerity is nothing new.

Over the moon

It’s official – India’s maiden moon mission,Chandrayaan has found clinching evidence of water still being formed on the lunar surface. Professor Yash Pal tells us why this finding is such a significant turning point in space research….

Lunar worries

A register of reports and views from the Pakistan press….

Local adjustments

Will the revised education bill deliver? It’s definitely a step in the right direction….

Minutes on death row

SC’s concern about sitting on mercy petitions is long-held and nuanced….

In a shadowy fray

Explore the vacuum of ideas in the Maharashtra campaign to understand MNS

The Congress’s five-star hypocrisy

One man’s cattle class is another man’s idea of supreme luxury. Which is why the Congress austerity drive has a hollow ring.

Wanted: A story

After a long time,there is excitement at the movies. Salman Khan shows his badass side in Wanted and the audience can’t get enough of this gun totting,brawny,no nonsense hitman.

The China chill

Now that the dust has somewhat settled on the “China hype”,with the government going the full distance to scotch half-truths…

Serving notice

India’s triumphant return to the Davis Cup world group after years of futility is momentous not just for what it entails literally…

Local adjustments

An appropriate question has been raised by the editorial ‘No child left behind’. But will the revised education bill deliver?

What a difference the one-day made

The movement started again about three months ago,at first in a whisper here and a murmur there.

Saying no to the wrong drugs

The Drugs and Cosmetics Act (DCA) was recently amended to mandate significantly enhanced penalties for those trafficking in…

View from the RIGHT

In an article titled “Austerity is a good idea. But the Congress is faking it” in the latest issue of Organiser,R Balashankar writes…

What’s in a name?

Anoushka Shankar’s saga of harassment sent a shudder down many spines,simply because we know that you don’t have to…

He’s not playing golf

Like poltergeist former General-President Pervez Musharraf won’t go away.

Merit matters

Fali S. Nariman’s suggestion about an ombudsman over the Supreme Court collegium deserves to be examined by the government in the…

Action replay

October 13 is a critical day for most of the players in Maharashtra politics. The MNS may finally find a place in state…

The great Game Folio

In scrapping the plans to deploy missile defence systems in Poland and the Czech Republic last week,US President Barack Obama…

View from the LEFT

The lead editorial in the latest issue of CPM mouthpiece People’s Democracy rejects outright the claims of a turnaround in the…

G-20 hope and prayer

America consumes less,exports more. China consumes more,exports less. The US dollar smoothly transits from being a…