Opinion
The recent Obama-Hu summit makes India's concerns on China real and urgent. It remains to be seen how Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acquits himself in Washington.
Web | Nov 19, 2009
Opinion
The cover-up in the Madhu Koda mining case already seems to have begun. But, it is so crude and brazen that the political damage could be equally disastrous.
Web | Nov 16, 2009
Platform
There are startling similarities and important differences between the Jain Hawala case and the Koda case. History is repeating itself. It ended as tragedy in the Jain Hawala case. Do not let it end this time as a farce.
Web | Nov 12, 2009
Comment
Despite the faith in the power of the RSS -- and its all-powerful chief Mohan Bhagwat -- that the BJP rank and file may have, it would be rash and premature to write off LK Advani just yet.
Web | Nov 10, 2009
Opinion
Lack of governance, the trampling of Constitutional and legal norms, the brazen corruption, the mounting threats of terrorism and insurgency...But look at the bright side...
Web | Nov 05, 2009
Opinion
The Hurriyat leaders might recall that before he died Pandit Nehru with the help of Sheikh Abdullah attempted to make Kashmir the bridge between India and Pakistan. Nehru had realized his earlier mistakes. Will the Hurriyat?
Web | Oct 29, 2009
Opinion
Actually, the troubles besetting the BJP are easy to resolve if its members only had the sense to observe and follow the party’s democratic constitution which, for all practical purposes, is consigned to the trash can.
Web | Oct 27, 2009
Anniversary
Mahatma Gandhi had earlier said that India could be partitioned only over his dead body. The Partition occurred but Gandhi remained alive. He was not afraid of death. Then why did he not redeem his pledge?
Web | Oct 02, 2009
Opinion
If globalisation allows big MNCs to exploit people worldwide how come the nation in which the largest and most powerful MNCs are headquartered is declining so quickly?
Web | Sep 29, 2009
Opinion
By raising doubts about Pokhran-2, 11 years after the event, whose political agenda are the scientists serving now?
Web | Sep 22, 2009
Comment
“They are travelling by third class instead of first class on air,” he warmed up. “What a joke! Let them travel by bus and get rid of their gunmen! Then we’ll see!”
Web | Sep 15, 2009
Comment
The legislators from Andhra are reinforcing the norms created by the central leadership of the Congress party. The motives of the Andhra MLAs today are no different from what they were when YSR was alive.
Web | Sep 14, 2009
Opinion
The two nation theory triumphed. But the Congress maintained the fiction that it had nevertheless remained committed to secularism. It is this dichotomy that lies at the heart of extremist Hindutva.
Web | Sep 09, 2009
Comment
The divisions within BJP are for the world to see. But do some apparently mixed signals from the RSS suggest that there are divisions in the parent body too?
Web | Sep 01, 2009
BJP-RSS
Advani drives the car flanked by colleagues, Bhagwat sits silently in the back seat. Whenever any leader turns around and asks: “Bhagwatji, should we turn left or right?” Then, and only then, will Bhagwat proffer advice.
Web | Aug 29, 2009
Comment
Will Dr Santhanam kindly explain his earlier silence and current volubility on Pokhran-2?
Web | Aug 27, 2009
Opinion
Jaswant Singh’s book on Mohammed Ali Jinnah, which has become a talking point across India, has revived the old debate about Partition. Time for a reality check before we decide on heroes and villains
Web | Aug 18, 2009
Opinion
The death of Subhash Bose was only the first among a series of mysterious deaths of national leaders that created dramatic change in politics. Inconvenient questions raised about the deaths are rubbished as conspiracy theories. In truth, there is only one monstrous conspiracy.
Web | Jul 13, 2009
First Person
After the BJP lost the general election in 2004 this first person account of interaction with the BJP was published in a magazine now defunct to explain why the BJP lost. It predicted that in its present shape the BJP will never return to power. The article is reproduced without any change.
Web | May 28, 2009
column
Taliban hitting targets eight miles from the Wagah border and Naxalites killing poll officers? Let Obama deal with that
Magazine | May 11, 2009