India's Roots Politics
Battered' bruised by the BJP' secularism is finding its feet and its voice again

Magazine | Sep 13, 2004

Crisis = Opportunity
Hemmed in by the Left and the Right' Manmohan stands at the crossroads

Magazine | Aug 30, 2004

Inoculate India's Mind
Our institutions need to be permanently immunised against political saffron

Magazine | Jul 26, 2004

That Perfect Vacation
It's a global scrimmage. If the militia don't get you' malaria will....

Magazine | Jul 05, 2004

TV And The Nonsensex
Oh' the cacophony of hysterical 24/7 reporters' yuppie stockbrokers and callow FIIs!

Magazine | Jun 21, 2004

Some High Road Chinks
Vajpayee had a sense of history. But on rajdharma' he faltered when it mattered.

Magazine | May 31, 2004

Rollercoaster In Hell
Electioneering is no fun' fending off sabotaging rivals and disappointed allies

Magazine | May 17, 2004

Rent-An-Imam Policy
Is the BJP so naive as to assume that its current wordsmithery will woo the Muslims?

Magazine | May 03, 2004

Swinging Blue Genes
If it had to be a Nehru-Gandhi' why Rahul and not Priyanka? She was the better bet.

Magazine | Apr 19, 2004

The Great Cricket Urs
Indians and Pakistanis do things in extreme. So also with the cricket bonhomie.

Magazine | Mar 22, 2004

Circus Sans Clowns
This will be a non-election because it has no cathartic value' no demons to bury

Magazine | Mar 08, 2004

One Mochi In Kochi
Migratory labour' the low-cost engine that drives India' is forever on the fringes

Magazine | Feb 23, 2004

Thesis And Anti-Thesis
A vigilant civil society can keep strife at bay even if the wisdom of power fails the BJP

Magazine | Feb 02, 2004

Page 3's Gutter Width
For the wannabes' New Year's eve is the time to flaunt their Armanis and Guccis

Magazine | Jan 19, 2004

View From The Glasshouse
What use pontificating about feelgood factors? Can we ignore the reality?

Magazine | Dec 22, 2003

The Shadow of Burqas
For Afghan women' freedom's costlier than the $68 mn spent on the constitution

Magazine | Dec 08, 2003

Bad Faith' Bad Taste
Pakistan's response to India's peace offer shows how badly it's stuck in the old mould

Magazine | Nov 17, 2003

The Mutant Hindu Turtle
Cooption' the great tactic of Hinduism' is what the Congress is practising

Magazine | Nov 03, 2003

Born-Again Schisms
Republican rule brought war: now America mulls its baleful consequences

Magazine | Oct 20, 2003

Terror Is A Dead Horse
Ordinary citizens get angry as they pick up the tab for Bush's war in Iraq

Magazine | Oct 06, 2003

Stem The Slide Now
India's problem has never been its people. It's the politics that's pulling us down.

Magazine | Sep 22, 2003