Gaga On Yoga
America's on a yoga high, churning out sundry paraphernalia as also music, clothes, books and holidays
Gauls Get The Bleus
48 goals in the first 17 games, 61 yellow and three red cards. Soccermania has begun in right earnest. But Senegal's upset of the French still rates as the best.
The Shaping Hand
Perhaps India's greatest allrounder, Vinoo Mankad was also the architect of some of its finest victories.
The Departure Lounge
A dab of hyper-reaction from the US dampens business and portends a tourism drought
Speed-Breakers On The Info Highway
The loud and very public spat over VSNL does little to inculcate investor confidence in PSUs
State Gazette
The Kantian phenomenon; Congress' brain storming 'war council'; PWG kicks off peace talks in Andhra and Rajnath Singh's bid to win the 'quota war'.
International Slipstream
"These pathetic old fighters must be pulled apart, and soon."Author Salman Rushdie, on the the need to prevent India and Pakistan from going to war
Welcome To Booty Zone
A peeved NCP-Congress ally pulls out, opening a season of defections and suitcase politics
"I Am RSS, So I Am Not Communal"
The BJP's triumphant CM, Manohar Parrikar, spoke to <i>Outlook</i> on the agenda he has set out for himself and the impact of the Gujarat violence on the elections in Goa. Excerpts:
A Beachhead, but the Hinterland is Another Battle
The victory in Goa is a shot in the arm for the BJP but to replicate it elsewhere may not be easy
Feni, Vidi, Vici Again
Call it the new polar cap. A hard, Gujarat-focused campaign by the Congress backfires and the BJP pockets a fourth state.
Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones
The force, it seems, is no longer with George Lucas Attack of the Clones fails to offer the same brand of unadulterated thrill and excitement as the Star Wars trilogy.
The Delhi-Mumbai Gazette
The "Spice" show, Delhi's liquor shops go funky, Dubyamanitis and Rahul Bose's new avtaar.
Terror On Hold
Jehadi outfits comply with Islamabad's request not to cross the LoC, but the rhetoric remains
Take It With Grace
We will be pushed, prodded, jostled, threatened, blackmailed into speeding up the process of a sustained and subtantial dialogue with Pakistan. Come to think of it, that may not be such a bad thing.
Mentors, Monitors
Washington and New Delhi work out realistic ways to ascertain infiltration levels in a manner visible to both
Mixing Fact And Fission
Our conceptual inability to put in place even a basic N-doctrine, contrasted with Pakistan's cold purposefulness, is an invitation to sure disaster.
Choking On Our Froth
War is a game played by the desperate. The world is with us now. We must press our advantage, move further from the brink.
Bull's Eye
Last week this column asserted that for the war against terrorism to succeed the money trail must be unearthed. Home minister Advani made the same ...
Life In Mined Fields
One fallout of the subcontinental stand-off has been to deprive hundreds of families near the LoC of their homes and livelihood
Bibliofile
Hanif Kureishi on the pangs of boredom and self loathing, Khushwant Singh's latest catch and need authors be professional?
Missing The Man
Misses the contradictions, especially between his politics and his poetry. Result: The Odyssey often reads like a panegyric to Grass.