Sniper's Seal
With Hurriyat moderate Abdul Ghani Lone's assassination, India's announcement that it intends to hold a free and fair election in the Valley will not only encounter indifference but resistance as well
Water Midsummer Nightmare
The dryness is so stark, it could almost catch fire. Are our cities hurtling towards water riots?
All-American Diner, IHC
Transplanting traditional truck driver's breakfast in America and selling it to socialites is crazy enough and it gets worse when it reeks of ugly racism.
State Gazette
Mobile Cash Cards; new sculptures in UP; sanitation on info highway; Kanu Sanyal, WB's revolutionary watchdog; Kerala and the Left; BJP-TDP friendship...
International Slipstream
"They were either asleep, or inept, or both."Senator Richard Shelby, on the FBI's inactivity after receiving warnings of possible terrorists enrolled in US flight schools.
Ranji, His Love, Life And Letters
India's greatest cricketing legend was also an incurable romantic, as revealed by a recent discovery of his love letters to the Holmes sisters, Mary and Minni
Struck By Liquid Gold
The Reliance acquisition of IPCL sends a monopoly scare through the petrochem market
A Plot From The Devil's Lair
A late-evening meeting convened by Modi on February 27 ensured mobs a free hand the next day
First Take
K.P.S.Gill in dry Gujarat, Prannoy Roy's new news channel and Star's plans with AB and more...
Spiderman
Post September 11, the real story about Spiderman is in all that got snipped—the shots of the WTC that got excised, leaving in just the isolated spire of the Empire State Building.
The Delhi-Mumbai Gazette
You may not agree with Qazi but you can't help admire the way he puts across his views. That is probably why the MEA has finally asked him to leave.
I Pray That India, Pakistan Go To War: Dar
<b>Michael Krepon</b> talked to Abdul Majid Dar about the charges of being an agent of the Indian security forces by the Pakistan-based leaders of Hizbul Mujahideen and his hopes for the future.
With Us, Or Not At All
Pakistan won't spare Kashmiri nationalists too, as Lone's murder proved, if they opposed the state's merger with it.
Lonesome Dove
Unlike other Hurriyat leaders, he belonged to the breed of mainstream political leaders who possess that admirable instinct to judge the direction of the wind.
Pushed Into Peace?
Bluster, anger, nervousness, but there's also a realisation that war is a no-win deal
Let Us Defy Uncle Sam
What if we did defy the US? Will it impose sanctions on us? Will US Marines land on Raisina Hill and arrest George Fernandes?
A Sop Story
Will the US buy Indian restraint by an offer of space technology and real-time intelligence?
The Cowardice Of War
What is a limited war? Limited for whom? If it's war, it cannot be limited. If it's limited, then it cannot be war.
Limited Means
Tackling cross-border terrorism is the main goal. Limited action seems the favoured plan.
Now Thrust, Now Parry
Political and diplomatic compulsions force the army to rethink strategy and concentrate on J&K rather than multiple theatres
Sowing Disaster's Seeds
The Bt-cotton technology can go the DDT way—resistant bollworms. It's effect on other insects and crops isn't known either.
For Suits In The Country
A dose of professionalism can do coop banks more good than a bewildering web of regulators
Bull's Eye
After Kaluchak and Lone's assassination, restraint might end. Our army might cross the Line of Control. Such action could escalate to war. War could lead ...
Bibliofile
So <i>when</i> did Ruskin Bond arrive in India? <i>How</i> is better -- flown in by a stork; summer sizzlers and the Americans Bookered.