Opinion & Edits

Nitish Kumar will go down in posterity as a self-serving and power-seeking leader

Pakistan's recall of its Chess Olympiad team is a self-goal

Death penalty for rape: Both Ashok Gehlot and his critics miss the point

State-level OBC groups must be included in central list

Degrees of reform

Shekhar Gupta’s column ‘His next class act’ (IE,May 30) has rightly underlined the urgent need for a total revolution in our….

Harmonious protest?

Twenty years after Tiananmen,China still can’t fathom dissent

Set the campus free

The best universities in India are not well rated by global standards. Let’s understand why

Sony keeps it light and fun

On other channels,soaps pop the bubble and take on reality

What’s behind the ‘curry-bashing’?

Economic insecurity,plus the fact that Indian students in Australia have practically no support systems….

The regulatory dilemma

Recent events aren’t an indictment of democratic capitalism

The morning after

The election,the results,the new Government are all in and the Liberal Hour is behind us.

Can Antony boost India’s defence diplomacy?

External Affairs Minister S M Krishna’s categorisation of India as a ‘responsible power’ has found an echo in the just-concluded Shangri La dialogue.

As it suits them

Sri Lanka has scored another diplomatic victory over the European call to probe “war crimes” during its anti-LTTE operations….

The Axis of Elections

What three elections in India’s near abroad might mean

New beats in the heartland

The Congress revival in Uttar Pradesh is far from a done deal

Man under house arrest

In an influential essay Virginia Woolf once asked the reader to imagine what would have happened if Shakespeare had a sister.

For Mumbai,a film on Shivajigiri

In the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections,the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance suffered a 0-6 rout in Mumbai…

Why primary education should be the Government’s primary concern

Last week,while the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi were choosing ministers for the new government…

An idea: A Left-Cong merger

There is now a chance to think calmly about the election. Let us forget the experts who say that nothing very much changed.

House poles

While Verdict 2009 fortunately provides for a stable and effective Union government,we should also be thankful that the mandate is not massive.

His next class act

A radical revamp of higher education is the only way to do justice to the politics of aspiration

Hindutva,Hindustan

After the recent mauling in the 2009 general elections,the BJP-led NDA must read Napoleon Hill’s famous quotation…

Drained of all sense

Now that the election is almost over,I must admit I am a bit of a fanatic. Not a big one,but a small one.

Some out of box thinking,please?

Politics is settling down. So will news television. There will be controversies,silly and otherwise…

United they stand

Terror strikes,especially of the suicide bombing variety,are no novelty to Pakistan…

For stability?

I agree with Arun Jaitley’s contention that the voter has rewarded state governments that have performed….

The lessons of Orissa

No issues? There were issues. Parties missed out on raising them

Who’s the aam aadmi?

Why s/he will be well-served by direct cash transfers instead of the current subsidies