Opinion & Edits

The conviction of Yasin Malik

The inaction of elected officials on gun control continues to take lives

The Indian consumer will have to spend more for a little longer

Why we must ask who killed Meena Khalkho

A few lessons

“Arun Shourie has attacked the Chief Minister,A.R. Antulay because the latter has opposed America’s decision to give arms…

View from the LEFT

The lead editorial in the latest issue of CPI(M) mouthpiece People’s Democracy claims that the RSS appears to have assumed…

Because the bluff might just be called

Taking all the factors (elaborated on these pages yesterday) into account,the national security advisory board…

What if Jinnah had won

The current debate over partition is radically incomplete. The debate has been framed around Jinnah’s desire for a federal but undivided India…

Green-eyed angel

The role Norman Borlaug,who died on Saturday,played in the import of the dwarf “miracle wheat” seeds in the mid-’60s has…

Talking China

Shekhar Gupta’s ‘Our Chinese wall’ was interesting. The areas where the recently reported transgressions…

Thinking through the unthinkable

India has rightly been called the ‘reluctant nuclear power’. No other country in the world allowed twenty-four years to lapse…

Factoring in the fear

Kambakht Akshay Kumar. Stands there looking like a work out gym in designer casuals and a scarf (scarf?),clucking his…

BLACK WIDOW DOWN

The separatist group Black Widow has agreed to lay down its illegal weapons and shift to designated camps on September…

India and Mongolia: Beyond uranium diplomacy

As it serenades Mongolia’s new President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj in Delhi this week,India must look beyond its latest preoccupation with uranium diplomacy.

Is it a recce?

Rahul Gandhi has made the correct moves and noises to establish himself as the undisputed leader of the Congress….

Reversing history

Last week,conservationists,international geneticists and ecologists gathered amidst the sands of Rajasthan to discuss how the cheetah could be brought back to India,and if it would stalk those very sands. The idea of bringing the African cheetah to the Indian wild has the same romantic fascination resurrecting the Mammoth or archaeopteryx would: the belief that human […]

Credit where it’s not due

A year after Lehman’s collapse,we still have to get the rogues’ gallery right

Advani will prove his obituary-writers wrong

Nothing succeeds like success,and nothing damns you like failure. Success,especially in politics,hides blemishes,even unforgivable ones….

A foreign policy for wimps

At last there are signs that the Government of India has had enough of Pakistan thumbing its nose at us…..

The Two Thousand Days Agenda

The hundred days have gone and are forgotten. But the government has to have an agenda for five years or 1,826 days….

Obscene craze for statues

Hankering after fame and eventual immortality is a common human weakness and may be forgiven….

Practise what you preach

Many of his cabinet colleagues are furious with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee for publicly admonishing S M Krishna and Shashi Tharoor….

What utter,super fun

Why you can’t talk bad of news TV….

Complete politician

Credit for YSR’s success should be given to his 2003 padayatra. That effort of personal labour gained him insight into Andhra’s rural hinterland…

In the name of the father

Should Y S Jaganmohan Reddy be permitted to step into his father YS Rajasekhar Reddy’s shoes?

377 reasons for free speech

The liberal response to the Gujarat ban was too tepid…

Our Chinese Wall

We need to break it to move beyond the escapism and paranoia that sustain our China policy

Battle for Maharashtra

Why the Congress is re-evaluating its marriage with the NCP….