Rajdeep Sardesai

Newsman |

Journalists are by training cynics, preferring to see every glass as half empty. But cynicism is no longer the exclusive preserve of mediapersons. A wave ...
12:10 AM, Aug 12, 2011

Sriram Balasubramanian

The Straight Drive |

Education in India is a conundrum. A few years back my cousin just completed her 12th standard and she had a percentage of 94.2; a ...
11:37 AM, Aug 10, 2011

Jhinuk Sen

Mostly Harmless |

The first I had heard the song- 'Use Somebody' - it was from this bunch of college musicians who were jamming in my living room. ...
06:45 PM, Aug 04, 2011

Trupti Rane

In Sync |

Life is cheap or so they say...if you want proof I think government hospitals are the best bet. The first time I did a ...
04:57 PM, Aug 03, 2011

Surya Gangadharan

BARAKA |

Is it time for an Indian ISPR (Inter-Services Public Relations)? Given its Pakistani origins you could always call it something else as long as it ...
12:03 PM, Aug 03, 2011

Tathagata Bhattacharya

Master and a glass of Margarita |

A scrutiny of India's pedagogic system is absolutely indispensable while attempting to analyse the social and economic impact of India's economic growth which is often ...
12:37 PM, Jul 25, 2011

Devapriya Roy

the vague woman's blog |

One day in the library I had an epiphany. It came in the form of a slim little yellow hardbound book that nobody had ...
12:30 PM, Jul 19, 2011

Shiv Visvanathan

Excess Baggage |

There is an unfairness to news we must recognize. A murder in Coimbatore, no matter how dramatic, loses in intensity to a bomb blast in ...
12:47 PM, Jul 18, 2011

Rituparna Chatterjee

Begging Your Pardon |

It seems the government's days of Chakrasana are over. The Congress-led UPA that rushed several senior ministers to meet Ramdev at the airport only a ...
02:32 PM, Jun 07, 2011

Suhasini Haidar

Head to Haid-ar |

"Journalist sabka dost hota hai (Journalists are everybody's friends)," was Saleem Shahzad's response when I asked him about the Taliban connections of a common acquaintance, ...
10:23 AM, Jun 03, 2011

Piya Hingorani

Tickler on the Roof |

Warning: This piece is a lighter take on a day of our life! "Theek se bolo" is the first thing I hear when ...
06:06 PM, May 30, 2011

Rati Chaudhary

Tech It Out |

After covering Science and Technology for five years, I recently moved to CNN-IBN's show Citizen Journalist. It is a show about citizens actively taking up ...
12:33 PM, May 30, 2011

Shiv Visvanathan

Excess Baggage |

His Holiness the Dalai Lama once commented on George Bush by saying, "He brings out the Muslim in me." Put with all the delicacy and ...
06:31 PM, May 20, 2011

Tathagata Bhattacharya

Master and a glass of Margarita |

If electoral deliverance and degree of popular support are taken to be the litmus test of performance in the context of democratic politics, there are ...
04:24 PM, May 20, 2011

Hemender Sharma

In Conversation |

There is still a lot of dispute over how many people were killed and left with life long disabilities by the deadly Methyl Iso Cyanide ...
07:01 PM, May 16, 2011

Wajid Shamsul Hasan

Diplomat's Diary |

Dead Osama bin Laden's (OBL) ghost has struck again claiming over 80 lives in Charsaddah. As a consequence of May 2 Abbottabad episode such incidents ...
05:15 PM, May 13, 2011

Subir Bhaumik

Neighbourhood watch |

The surgical commando strike that killed Osama Bin Laden at his Abbotabad mansion has demonstrated that the US is prepared to do whatever it takes ...
04:01 PM, May 09, 2011

Priyarag Verma

Reverse Sweep |

Osama bin Laden is dead, the US has achieved what it set out to after 9/11 and Pakistan is red-faced that the world's most wanted ...
02:09 PM, May 06, 2011

Gillian Marie Hooper

Gill & Tonic |

US President Barack Obama announced on May 2 that the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, was killed in a pre-dawn helicopter-borne secret operation ...
02:43 PM, May 05, 2011

Ipsita Shome

ON THE ROCKS: No Watering Down |

The late Al-Qaeda chief's hideout was a $1-million mansion in Abbottabad in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, not a menial cave on the rugged terrains ...
02:58 PM, May 03, 2011