Hemender Sharma

In Conversation |

The discovery of an antidote to some future disease that has yet not shown signs of arrival is possible only in fiction. Already available remedies ...
09:20 PM, Mar 21, 2011

Hemender Sharma

In Conversation |

The ruling Indian elite are surviving on confusion created by noise generated over issues that touch the masses. The machinery that generates this noise is ...
02:17 PM, Feb 14, 2011

Ipsita Shome

ON THE ROCKS: No Watering Down |

The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical reference book written by Ambrose Bierce. The book offers reinterpretations of terms in English language, lampooning cant and political ...
01:32 PM, Dec 17, 2010

K Aravamudhan

The Wanderer |

I sometime wonder if the Indian ruling class knows about the existence of a wonderful 'tool' called 'incognito' which, should they prefer to use, I ...
10:20 AM, Oct 27, 2010

Wajid Shamsul Hasan

Diplomat's Diary |

It was "Benazir Day" as Pakistan's President Zardari in his address to the Parliament rightly said, "we are making history by restoring the 1973 Constitution ...
05:07 PM, Apr 11, 2010

Rajdeep Sardesai

Newsman |

On the face of it, a Narendra Modi's politics is as different from Mayawati's as a Gujarati dhokla is from a Lucknowi seekh kebab. One ...
11:48 PM, Apr 01, 2010