Dear Sir, You cannot be more 'right', pun vehemently intended. I am one of the many today outraged by your remarks that rapes happen ...
05:36 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Two decades is almost a third of the journey that independent India has covered since 1947. It's been a long journey, chequered with events that ...
12:39 PM, Dec 06, 2012
A research officer from the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences was recently harassed in Hyderabad while he worked on a report on terror cases ...
04:55 PM, Oct 10, 2012
In a piece Fareed Zakaria wrote for Time on gun control after the tragic Wisconsin gurdwara massacre, he lifted a passage from Harvard University history ...
06:53 AM, Aug 12, 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has finished third in the Time magazine's global poll on the 100 most influential people. The two who got ahead of Modi are a group of hackers called Anonymous and anti-piracy law champion Eric Martin after a nail-biting finish. However, what may have disappointed Modi backers more is that the BJP leader got more 'No' votes (266684) than the 'Yes' ones (256792) when the readers...
10:17 AM, Apr 09, 2012
William J Antholis, Managing Director of The Brookings Institution, on March 16, 2012 wrote the following about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the institute's website: "I came away thinking that this was a man America needed to know better. He may never be able to move past his role in the 2002 riots. But he is a talented and effective political leader, and will continue pushing New Delhi and...
06:35 PM, Apr 04, 2012
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us;...
05:14 PM, Mar 29, 2012
The Time magazine recently, through a controversial cover story on the BJP mascot and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, made the argument that Modi may be the biggest threat Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would face in the 2014 general elections. "Modi, 61, is perhaps the only contender with the track record and name recognition to challenge Rahul Gandhi," says the story. Indian politics at the Centre today is largely between...
12:05 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Is Mamata Banerjee more powerful than the Prime Minister of India? What mandate does she have? Should a whimsical politician, for her whimsical gains, be allowed to have a free run, devoid of any accountability? Isn't the fact that an ally holding the government to ransom, thereby stalling crucial policy decisions, a sad reality of the Indian polity now? What is the way forward, or out? Mamata's opposition to the...
11:17 PM, Feb 28, 2012
It's a choice that a lot of people may have to make. One of them is the heir apparent in a democracy, itself a contradiction in terms. The other radiates charm and capability in a way that remind people of her grandmother. Neither has been tested yet. Only one of them is in active politics. And yet, sooner than we imagine, they could be the subject of a choice that...
07:05 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Who is an idol? If we look at the question the way a celebrity-obsessed, media-driven culture wants us to, its answer becomes simple: an idol is somebody we know ('we' here standing for the urban middle class which has set a certain standard for its idols, and those fitting in are duly worshipped at the altar of popular culture.) So we have numerous awards organised by newspapers, radio stations to...
04:00 PM, Dec 15, 2011
When the courts of law are counted as 'heroes' of the year in an annual list, it may mean two things. One, the judiciary in the country is generally 'non-heroic', or non-performing. In other words, it was in the year 2011 only that the courts across the nation got their act together and showed a unique commitment to heroic judgments. Or two, that the courts in India went out of...
03:43 PM, Dec 15, 2011
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It's my favourite story from the Sainik School Tilaiya days. It was around 2 am on a cold December night in 1989. The asbestos roof ...
03:35 PM, Nov 16, 2011
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Dear friends and comrades, As I write this, television screens all over the world are already flashing their 'exclusive' coverage of the Big Sunday ...
10:32 PM, Sep 10, 2011
Two things happened twenty years ago. Manmohan Singh was brought from Genevas economic think-tank South Centre and appointed finance minister in a deal forced upon India by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) when the agency was approached to bail the nation out of its debt crisis. Singh supervised the transition of India from a socialist-democracy to a capitalist market economy, a process often referred to as liberalization-globalization. Two decades later,...
02:41 PM, Aug 01, 2011
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