Why the real game changer in Pakistan's elections could be the radical right, and why India should worry. It was a speech made with ...
07:56 AM, May 03, 2013
"Justice", the new rallying cry on the streets and in the studios, can be awfully selective at times. The brutal gangrape of a Delhi girl ...
12:16 AM, Apr 05, 2013
It's that time of the year when cricket finds a new definition. From 'city moment of success' to 'maximums', IPL's 'bus dekhne ka nahi' slogan ...
01:46 PM, Apr 02, 2013
The police must answer why innocent Muslims are being implicated in terror cases When in doubt about a terror investigation, blame the most readily ...
06:54 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Engaged at 14, married at 16, mother to a little girl at 17, Shahnaz Husain's life is an inspiration to those who passionately want to ...
11:45 AM, Mar 05, 2013
The counter argument to narrow mindedness is missing From the Grand Mufti's fatwa against the all-girl band in Kashmir, to the now lifted ban ...
09:56 AM, Feb 13, 2013
The tyro with a buzz cut took off from near the middle of the pitch. He ran across the turf in a sharp ...
07:04 PM, Feb 06, 2013
In 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers', a true account spun off as a novel, about life in Annawadi, a slum adjoining Mumbai airport, author Katherine Boo ...
09:20 PM, Jan 30, 2013
The recent outcry of middle-class men and women, many of whom not associated with any political party or developmental organisation, is an important phenomenon that ...
12:21 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Now that Barack Obama has won a second term, let's look at some of the reasons for his victory in what was predicted as a ...
01:34 PM, Nov 12, 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
Even as Kejriwal made his 'startling disclosures' on Reliance controlling the Government, came news from China that Premier Wen Jiabao has accumulated billions from various ...
05:06 PM, Nov 01, 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
Not too long ago, the media had quite a handicap in the pursuit of the truth. Privy to all information, the political class was unchallenged ...
11:28 PM, Oct 29, 2012
A research officer from the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences was recently harassed in Hyderabad while he worked on a report on terror cases ...
04:55 PM, Oct 10, 2012
A kind of McCarthyism seems to be operating in the country. Just as the US Senator who gave the term its name saw communists lurking ...
11:58 AM, Oct 10, 2012
On October 5, 1962, exactly fifty years ago, four young men recorded a single the words and music of which they had composed themselves, which ...
12:45 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Ten years ago, I bought a new apartment under construction in DLF Exclusive Floors, Phase V, Gurgaon. I took a loan from ICICI Bank to ...
10:29 AM, Oct 06, 2012
In a recent blog post, I introduced readers to Garry Davis, the first "world citizen," who has spent his life trying to convince ...
12:03 PM, Sep 18, 2012
With each culture evolving its own ways of celebrations, marriage is an event of lifetime. After a break during the Holy fasting month of Ramzan, ...
02:22 PM, Sep 02, 2012
