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

Maharashtra muddle

The Maharashtra assembly election will set both tone and tune of the political orchestra currently being conducted by Dr Manmohan…

The stages of denial

Saleha enters the room on crutches — two steel poles wrenched from umbrellas — and lowers herself on a rope-strung…

Point noted

This refers to ‘Jaswant,not-so original’,. Both the publishers and the author are grateful that the learned scholar Professor…

Rejigging NREGA,the wrong way

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is once again in the news,for the wrong reasons. Arbitrary changes in the guidelines…

Cricket’s remote controllers

Watching BCCI officials openly sparring over control of the IPL this week reminded me of the story about the cats…

View from the RIGHT

The editorial in the latest issue of Organiser titled “Board Exam: A Rational Approach” says: “The UPA-I was notorious for its…

Crowd spotting

Chances are that even if you were not particularly concerned about India’s campaign in the Nehru Cup,an alert would have…

Surviving Ram and Laxman

The BJP prides itself that,unlike most political parties,it is democratic and not controlled by a single family. But this very…

Security scare

Pakistan is known for acquiring weapons surreptitiously instead of producing them indigenously.

MPs need help with homework too

Members of Parliament have a problem. They are expected to ask questions in the house to keep the executive in check,help…

Neutral Japan?

As the world comes to terms with the massive defeat of the Liberal Democratic Party in Sunday’s elections in Japan,the big…

View from the LEFT

When there is a crisis in the Right,how can the Left not react? So,in the latest edition of CPM mouthpiece People’s Democracy…

Look who’s all grown up now

From a single face-to-face meeting six years ago,he instantly recalled who I was when I phoned him. He was then a gawky…

Banning liberty

People in Gujarat have become so accustomed to bans,particularly on films dealing with communal violence that they assume such products have been banned even when they have in fact not been banned.

Why Jaswant is wrong

Jaswant Singh’s book is a brilliant landmark encompassing accepted and contrarian views. According to him,Partition…

Turning success into failure

India’s much-publicised moon mission came to an abrupt end on August 29 when we lost radio contact with Chandrayaan-1.

Parivar takeover?

The BJP has,since its inception,been dependent on borrowed cadres of the Sangh Parivar.

Don’t underestimate the consumer

The public have just voted us into power. We should not respond by raising the price of petrol and diesel…

The future of ideas

It is only appropriate that the report of the Yash Pal Committee on higher education was being discussed by the Central…

Same difference?

BJP leaders are not alone in jumping into the ring and wrestling each other. Three lusty lads from Haryana have traveled to South Africa for a bout or two.

Learning from history

We might not need to excavate Partition further,but what of the recent revelations about the Gujarat riots?

Our commitment to the Commonwealth

Delhi appears disastrously unprepared for the Games….

Welcome move

The decision to voluntarily disclose judges’ wealth is very welcome…

No one like us

Indian policy-makers are in danger of taking the wrong lesson from the financial crisis