
The Modi-Rahul face off is good democracy The forthcoming electoral contest of 2014 is fast passing into pop culture. The Battle of the "Bachelors" ...

07:04 AM, Apr 10, 2013

Morality and prudence are polar opposite virtues, which when hold hands deliver political master strokes to those who wield them. For the heinous crimes of ...

01:37 PM, Mar 06, 2013

A rape that happened 17 years ago has animals of Junglistan up in arms. #Suryanelli is today the most trending topic. @ChikkuTheCricket Can ...

12:40 AM, Feb 28, 2013

As Pakistani politicians go, Rehman Malik certainly stands out. A policeman who has made it up the ranks of a feudal political system, he was ...

02:30 PM, Dec 14, 2012

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday raised concerns over misuse of social media specially to flare up communal hatred by certain section. Recently Law Minister ...

08:06 PM, Sep 08, 2012

Haven't we always talked about things with people we know and sometimes with people we don't know that well? Isn't that what being human is ...

04:37 PM, May 18, 2012

I am assuming that most of us have seen the new Rajesh Khanna fan commercial by now. Isn't it fascinating to see Rajesh Khanna performing ...

06:50 PM, May 04, 2012

I don't think Iran or Hezbollah is behind the series of attacks that have targeted Israeli citizens and establishments in the last one week. I ...

04:53 PM, Feb 17, 2012

Yuvraj Singh's treatment for cancer has dominated headlines over the last week or so. In a cricket crazy nation, it is not surprising the kind ...

01:48 PM, Feb 10, 2012

After Musharraf shot himself in the foot by messing with the Chief Justice, and got ousted, Pakistan lurched back to democracy. Benazir Bhutto returned in ...

01:49 PM, Jan 16, 2012
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Dear Kapil Sibal, As an Internet professional (and addict) I am appalled by your efforts to take control over what users express online. Not ...

04:54 PM, Dec 06, 2011
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Looking at the state of the Indian Union and the polity that governs it, one is prompted to dig Henry B Adams out of his ...

09:43 PM, Nov 28, 2011
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Here's another installment of Panditji to keep you smiling. Here's Panditji's solution to the prisoner's dilemma! ...

11:20 AM, Oct 24, 2011
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Delhities are a happy lot these days. The Delhi government has recently passed a landmark Bill that penalizes government officials who fail to process applications ...

03:42 PM, Oct 04, 2011
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With so many political figures holed up in Tihar, the ones that are outside look pristine white, like the proverbial super-white shirt in a detergent ...

11:43 AM, Sep 26, 2011
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I had left my office at about 730pm and I was thinking about my chat with my colleague earlier in the day. We were discussing ...

01:41 PM, Sep 23, 2011
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"Why don't you cover Irom Sharmila's decade-old fast with the same intensity as you did Anna Hazare's 13-day fast?" asked Binalakshmi Nepram, the founder of ...

12:02 AM, Sep 09, 2011
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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
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Twitter saved lives in the tragic moments after the Mumbai blasts last month and Facebook gave a platform to the Egypt-Libya uprisings. Blackberry Messengers seems ...

06:51 PM, Aug 11, 2011
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Over the last ten days, the Supreme Court (SC) has taken some steps, passed certain orders and has come out with a number of directives ...

04:11 PM, Jul 06, 2011