Express Opinion

Why we need to move towards sensible tax treaties with major countries....

Even before the battles of the 1960s,relations between India and the US soured over food aid....

How the Omar government’s heavy-handed remoteness precipitated the latest Valley crisis....

Wrapping up the big,the bad and the moderately good of the past six months:...

The Palestinians are looking for their own Mahatma....

Last December I’d written about how India’s three generations: the Retro and Compromise generations seem to have connived with this country’s peculiar socio-eco-political circumstances to create Zap86....

Not long ago in the lobby of the Oberoi Hotel in Delhi I ran into Yasin Malik. He was with his pretty Pakistani wife and they were off to dine in the Italian restaurant....

When CRPF personnel die in Gondwana,there is an outcry,but the resolve is that the Army will not be deployed....

Thank God,the Congress is divided over the inclusion of caste in Census 2011. Hail the failure of the Group of Ministers headed by Pranab Mukherjee to reach a conclusion last week on this politically myopic

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and the RSS are on the same side of the fence....

There are two ways to show the power of public protests. Courting arrest,picketing in front of government offices and leading public dissent in a peaceful manner lend credibility to strikes....

The spills and thrills of World Cup 2010....

The halo around the higher judiciary is dimming — and this is dangerous....

In Data’s Lahore,coming to terms with the unthinkable....

NGOs are proliferating across India. How the RTI Act could help us — and them — ensure they’re accountable....

The internet may not be making us stupid — but it is certainly making us worse students....

A register of reports and views from the Pakistan press

A critical experiment on news TV....

Time for the substantive debate on the Equal Opportunities Commission....

Industry chambers arrive quickly where economists fear to tread. Why?....

This refers to the report “Comrade Hem’ was a just a scribe,say friends’ (IE,July 8). While the bereaved wife of Hem denies her husband had anything to do with the Maoists....

Will the attacks on the shrine of Lahore’s patron saint be a game-changer in Pakistan’s irregular war?....

The lessons from the McChrystal episode for India’s top brass: don’t pre-empt politicians,handle the media with care....

How Nepal’s Big Three parties don’t look like they can form a national government....

The most courageous and effective voices defending Palestinians are Israeli....