Express Opinion

I was in Ahmedabad the day the hooch tragedy came to light. It started with a few deaths and then the numbers rose,rapidly.

PM's remarks on his way back from the G-8 meetings in Italy suggest that a deal with Pak on the resumption of talks,may be at hand.

The heavy artillery has been brought out in the CPI(M)’s war of attrition. Last week at the party’s politburo meeting...

Last week’s Budget brought home to me a sad reality. It was not the Marxist parties who prevented economic...

Many people believe that China will become the largest and most powerful economy in the world by 2050.

The road from Parner to Hivre Bazar,in the rural expanse of central Maharashtra,passes through an arid land untouched...

The expansion of the G8 to the G14 is taking place with new structures being put together with hairpins and chewing gum.

Ibrahim Rahimtulla has a direct interest in the findings of the Justice M.S. Liberhan Commission.

Pakistan’s President Asif Zardari knows how to stay in the news. And so does the country’s Chief Justice,Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

Making a substantive point on a news TV discussion may be among the toughest jobs in modern economies and I have often wondered whether the ones..

Good liquor is slow poison; bad liquor can kill instantly. It’s ironic that hooch...

September 2008 was less than a year ago. Lehman Brothers collapsed. AIG got nationalised. Merrill got taken over. Washington Mutual disappeared.

China’s ethnic moment is here with a vengeance. This was nervously endorsed by President Hu Jintao’s decision...

I wonder whether those who get uptight about Section 377 of IPC have bothered to read it.

The foremost irony of the OBC reservation policy of the Indian state is that it has no official estimates on a basic indicator — the population of the Other Backward Classes and their socio-economic status.

When the government finally discloses the contents of the Justice Liberhan Commission report there will predictably be a hue-and-cry in the media and heated debates in Parliament and outside.

In a democracy,public money builds statues to perpetuate the memory of national heroes. Only dictators infatuated with themselves...

After the end of the Kargil war,a veteran Pakistani journalist and confidante of Field-Marshal Ayub Khan wrote a series of four articles in the Pakistani daily Nation titled “Four wars,one assumption.”

Three years after the tsunami of criticism over the devaluation of the rupee had driven Indira Gandhi to a policy switch,from pragmatic to populist...

Jamaat-e-Islami’s Daawat,in its front page commentary on the Liberhan Commission report on the demolition of Babri Masjid,says “acting on the commission’s report will be a very big challenge.”

In the Naz Foundation case,the Delhi High Court partially struck down as being unconstitutional,Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Does this judgment have force in the whole of India?

Bob McNamara was a phenomenon,and a complex one at that. Also,he was a phenomenon of my generation. In the mid-’60s,in College America,he was a hate figure. A former president of Ford...

The government is done with the fiscal policy for 2009-10,at least for now. It is over to the Reserve Bank of India to coordinate its monetary policy...

Bibek Debroy best summed up Pranab Mukherjee’s Budget. It’s indeed the kind of Budget we deserved since it’s “not flashy and spectacular”.

Uighurs are unlike any other people in the annals of mankind: they do not trace their origins to neolithic times. They do not claim that antiquity is littered with their linguistic and cultural traces.