There is 'not a shred of evidence' that genetically-modified food is harmful to humans yet a committee appointed by the Supreme Court has advised a ...
09:39 PM, Nov 05, 2012
As Hurricane Sandy pounded the eastern coast of the United States, the campaign dynamics of the presidential elections changed dramatically even though temporarily. During Sandy, ...
11:29 PM, Nov 04, 2012
The megastorm Sandy, demoted from the position of hurricane, has been ravaging the East Coast of the US for the last three days. As of ...
04:45 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Mallika Dutt is the founder of the groundbreaking human rights organization Breakthrough, where she serves as President and CEO. Breakthrough combines innovative new technologies with ...
11:55 AM, Oct 19, 2012
There seems to be cold hard realism within our Indian sensibilities that money and electoral politics is a toxic cocktail for parliamentary democracy. Whenever well-funded ...
01:15 PM, Oct 08, 2012
A few SMS messages, a couple of inflammatory photos. They triggered off the largest internal exodus in India since partition. We're talking about the north ...
05:49 PM, Oct 03, 2012
My mother said the most bizarre thing to me this afternoon over a very elaborate Bengali lunch. Claiming she had read it in the papers. ...
05:54 PM, Sep 27, 2012
This weekend was a bag of mixed emotions. On one side, I was elated to hear the news of Yuvraj Singh getting back to cricket ...
03:55 PM, Sep 10, 2012
A sinister wind of communal violence is blowing across the country. A senior editorial colleague tells me that it is being fanned by fanatic saffron ...
11:25 PM, Aug 25, 2012
It is quite surprising that the Comptroller and Auditor General has not advised denationalisation of the coal industry in its report to Parliament. The CAG ...
08:38 PM, Aug 17, 2012
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. . . ." This is the famous opening line of the novel 'Rebecca' written by ...
03:27 PM, Aug 14, 2012
What a wonderful weekend! There was the Jamaican relay team's world record at the Olympics and wrestler Sushil Kumar's silver medal. There was Indian officialdom's ...
10:30 AM, Aug 14, 2012
Mangalore has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently. On July 28, a band of around fifty hooligans belonging to the Hindu ...
11:42 AM, Aug 07, 2012
A triple-century in Tests does not automatically qualify the player as one of the batting greats of the game. Yet, it does raise the level ...
01:22 PM, Jul 24, 2012
There have been three quakes in and around Afghanistan, in the past one week. Each measured five or above on the Richter scale. Two quakes ...
04:01 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Well, his father, the late Rajiv Gandhi, certainly was. An airline pilot by profession, Rajiv Gandhi's fascination for machines both civilian and military was well ...
04:57 PM, Jul 19, 2012
There is a whole lot of talk about how India does not have a robust enough strategic culture. So "Geek at Large", in its own ...
02:08 PM, Jul 11, 2012
In my last blog post I talked about the crumbling beauty of Calcutta. For me, personally, it was an attempt to get reacquainted with the ...
02:09 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Last night I came back from a breathless visit to Calcutta, the city where I spent 17 years, including my most formative ones. Middle school, ...
12:52 PM, Jun 26, 2012
The single entrance exam proposed has created quite a stir. The students are not too comfortable with it, the parents are disillusioned by it and ...
01:42 PM, Jun 11, 2012
