We can be proud of many things about our country. As someone who relishes seeing the dynamics of democracy constantly unfold, I am proud that ...
07:20 AM, Sep 17, 2012
"Let the Judges also remember that Solomon's throne was supported by lions on both sides: let them be lions, but yet lions under the throne." ...
02:11 PM, Jul 14, 2012
The legacy of national reconciliation bequeathed by martyred Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto to the people of Pakistan nourished by her blood has finally become the order ...
01:01 PM, Jun 12, 2012
What has happened to the nation? The Parliament is scared of cartoons while the government resents freedom of press. News broke on Friday that the ...
04:37 PM, May 15, 2012
The Parliament has mildly reprimanded Team Anna with Speaker Meira Kumar reading out a statement saying any comment that lowered the dignity of Parliament was ...
05:46 PM, Mar 29, 2012
I have chosen this topic for discussion as I believe that, as we look deeper and wider in the functioning of our polity, we have ...
12:49 PM, Feb 13, 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
![Tathagata Bhattacharya]( "Tathagata Bhattacharya")
The Parliament has been adjourned for the 9th day in a row; the notional loss to the country's exchequer touches the Rs 36 crore mark. ...
04:05 PM, Dec 02, 2011
![Suhasini Haidar]( "Suhasini Haidar")
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's flight path from Tripoli to Kabul this week should have given the US administration some reason to reflect on ...
11:50 AM, Oct 22, 2011
![Hemender Sharma]( "Hemender Sharma")
There is no better way to exercise complete control over an individual or an organisation than this one: systematically facilitate corruption by changing rules and ...
08:46 PM, Apr 25, 2011
![Sagarika Ghose]( "Sagarika Ghose")
The Anna Hazare movement crept up unnoticed, pounced suddenly and seized a country by the throat unexpectedly. Within hours of Hazare announcing his fast, the ...
06:56 AM, Apr 13, 2011
![Ipsita Shome]( "Ipsita Shome")
When I thought Anna Hazare was on the edge of absurdity, there came the Government of India, swinging its bag of colloquy, diving into an ...
09:27 AM, Apr 09, 2011
![Suhasini Haidar]( "Suhasini Haidar")
It's a slap that echoed around the world -- and without exaggeration, struck fear in the hearts of dozens of regimes across it. Every cliché ...
04:51 PM, Mar 08, 2011
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The Manama I see on TV these days looks nothing like the Manama I visited last year in May and December. I enjoyed the modern, ...
11:54 AM, Feb 18, 2011
![Ipsita Shome]( "Ipsita Shome")
The scenes were surreal. The spirit indomitable. Fire streamed through the streets of Egypt as the world watched the war cry for coup d'état. President ...
03:01 PM, Feb 01, 2011
![Ipsita Shome]( "Ipsita Shome")
The United States has been intimidated, embarrassed and bruised. All that in one single go. Ask Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates, if you may. Or ...
12:16 PM, Jan 21, 2011
