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Attack on Parliament

Mayhem's Action Replay

The attack on India's Parliament had a larger gameplan—going for the PM's head

Dec 24, 2001

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It Was Waiting To Happen

The sequence of events -- the how, when and where of it all.

Dec 24, 2001

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Attack on parliament

"Revenge Will Be Our Only Compensation"

P. Chidambaram, Bal Thackeray, Arun Jaitly, Madan Lal Khurana and many more on what should be done.

Dec 24, 2001

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Opinion

'Advaniji Too Was Confused'

The Congress chief whip recounts the events of December 13th as they unfolded before his eyes

Dec 24, 2001

| Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi
Opinion

Free And Fair In Kashmir

The presence of international observers will strengthen New Delhi's hands.
Free Speech: What do you think?

Dec 24, 2001

| Prem Shankar Jha
Attack on parliament

Still No To POTO

It's advantage Advani both ways, but the Opposition is firm on its stand against the ordinance

Dec 24, 2001

| Bhavdeep Kang
Attack on parliament

No Ripples To Show

The US made the right noises, but nary a word on Pakistan or on cross-border terrorism

Dec 24, 2001

| Sanjay Suri
Attack on parliament

'An Indian Conspiracy'

Is New Delhi involved in the strike? Theories abound, at least across the border.

Dec 24, 2001

| Amir Mir
Attack on Parliament

Rust In The Armour

Despite repeated warnings, security agencies failed to wake up to the "real" threats

Dec 24, 2001

| Murali Krishnan
Opinion

Wanted: Cool Heads

India's response should not be determined by domestic pressure to 'do something' quickly, but by its effectiveness and national interest.
Free Speech: End of ou

Dec 24, 2001

| Vinod Mehta
Attack on parliament

Shock Therapy

The terrorist attack on the arch-symbol of Indian democracy rekindles an old debate. Should India look at a military option?

Dec 24, 2001

| Ranjit Bhushan

politics

Returns Of The Day

Pawar's birthday politics earns him not-so-unexpected friends

Dec 24, 2001

| Priya Sahgal
Polscape

Beefy Culture

Why is it that those who insist on ancient culture, don't themselves sound cultured?

Dec 24, 2001

| Sagarika Ghose
nagaland

A Healing Touch

Peace could be a welcome byproduct of the PM's Japan trip

Dec 24, 2001

| Nitin A. Gokhale
defence

Vision Impossible: Coffin Up The Money

Forget Bofors, bullets, bombs. The CAG report indicates that lucre can be found even in aluminium caskets and bodybags.

Dec 24, 2001

| Murali Krishnan
- Damning Revelations

japan visit

It Isn't Easy, Breaking The Diet

Vajpayee's visit helps defrost relations. Yet, geopolitical equations remain tentative and trade an untapped area.

Dec 24, 2001

| Payal Kapadia
reporter at large

To Kabul, And Back

It's a bleak, war-ravaged landscape that the Indian side is now parachuting politically into

Dec 24, 2001

| V. Sudarshan
OPINION

Mazar-e-Taliban, R.I.P.

The Taliban's penchant to anger all around them and putting Afghans off everything they loved led to their fall.

Dec 24, 2001

| Daniel Lak

software

One Nation's Meat…

In a bizarre twist, September 11 and the recession in the US economy is turning out to be good news for the Indian infotech sector

Dec 24, 2001

| Arindam Mukherjee
- India Ahoy
domain names

Squatternama

Since the legits aren't buying back domain names, squatters are selling them for the next most profitable cause—pornography

Dec 24, 2001

| Manu Joseph
- What's In A Name?
petroleum

Dial 9/11 For Gas

Depressed crude prices post-September 11 reduces India's huge oil pool deficit

Dec 24, 2001

| Arijit Barman
- Disguised Boon

impressions

Letting Go, Gently

"All our losses in life are combined in one great loss when we die, so how could anyone dying not be sad or angry."

Dec 24, 2001

| Anita Pratap

television

Honey, I Shrunk The Gods

Sanjay Khan returns to the small screen with his typically lavish version of the epic Mahabharata

Dec 24, 2001

| Bishwadeep Ghosh
appraisal

Everybody's Dadamoni

With Ashok Kumar, a little bit of laughter has gone out of Bombay cinema, says Waheeda Rehman

Dec 24, 2001

| Waheeda Rehman

10 Questions

Meghana Gulzar

On her directorial debut in Bollywood with Filhaal

Dec 24, 2001

| Manu Joseph
Bibliofile

Who will stop V.P. Singh? Remembering Agha Shahid Ali as David Davidar leaves Sanjeev Saith and Tarun Tejpal on the sidelines...

Dec 24, 2001

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Afghanistan Diary

An Inviting Snare

Dec 24, 2001

| Satinder Bindra
Making A Difference

Samata fights an exploitative system to give tribals what is rightfully theirs

Dec 24, 2001

| Savitri Choudhury
Reviews

Man As Barometer

He has been the ideal reviewer: a halfway house between writer/reader

Dec 24, 2001

| Sunil Sethi
Review

Cloying Homilies

Requires no mental effort to understand and has no distracting literary qualities.

Dec 24, 2001

| Manjula Padmanabhan
Review

Born To A Stigma

What D'Souza lacks is writing skills and the services of a ruthless editor.

Dec 24, 2001

| Bhaichand Patel
Showtime

Artificial Intelligence

A spotty and slightly self-indulgent tribute with some stunning moments.

Dec 24, 2001

| Soutik Biswas
Glitterati

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news