M.S. Swaminathan
The grandpere of modern Indian agriculture and chairman of National Commission of Farmers was honoured with France's highest civilian award Commander, Merit Agricole
Golmaal
The giddy gags notwithstanding, yet another in the line of the mass-produced Bollywood comedies, that seems to have arrived a bit too late in the day
Waves Of Good Tidings
On their choppy waters, the fishing community now has a friend to guide them along the way
Bearded & Tagged
The community's in the dock again, but this time the soul-searching has a back-to-the-wall feel to it
Al-Qaedism Followers
Al Qaeda, the umbrella group of militant Islam, has fostered a state of mind: Al Qaedism. Though on the run, its leader, Osama bin Laden, remains an inspiration for radical Muslims the world over.
The Core Issue: Musharraf
A cautiously aggressive India wins in its bid to veer global powers towards virtually marking Pakistan
Colour Of Local Terrorism
Some of the local terrorist outfits on the scanner of the intelligence agencies:
Made In India
Terror is getting increasingly homegrown: in small, local forms <a href="dossiersind.asp?id=741" target="_blank">Full Coverage</a>
'We Need To Shift To Offensive Defence'
'Empower and enable the security agencies... provide exemplary punishments for misuse and exercise it with an iron hand.'
War Below The Radar
India's intelligence community and their political masters are revisiting the security doctrines we live by. It's time for answers.
Bull's Eye
From a great patriotic enterprise, Kargil has now become an embarrassment—Musharraf and Sharif are neck-deep in the blame game.
What India Is Reading
Sunil Khilnani, Vijay Tendulkar, Navin Jindal, Simi Garewal on what they are reading
Bibliofile
The world's oldest publisher bought over a young (only 14-years-old), little-known textbook publishing house in Delhi, for a whopping $4.5 million...
No Lolita This
The Nobel Peace prize-winner's memoirs skilfully weave her personal history with the cataclysmic events that have shaped her country.
Paint Your Landscape
Rather like the city itself, this is a book that is the result of a cultivated eye. And so its readers will have to be drawn from that echelon.
Much Tut, Tut And A Holding Forth
His social conscience veered towards formula and came peppered with desi gaalis in all their pungency
