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Shekhar Gupta

Our faff-Pak policy

Gloating over every terror attack in Pakistan and outsourcing our future to the Americans is delusional

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Ila Patnaik

Seasoning the stock

The sale of shares of up to 60 public sector enterprises by the Central government will have many advantages.

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Degrees of half measures

The proposed reforms in India’s premier university, Delhi University, shed interesting light on the institutional challenges of reform in India and offer wider lessons.

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Shailaja Bajpai

God tv

Last week, Aaj Tak declared that God would descend to earth. Wrong: he is already in our midst. Short with bright eyes, curly hair, an ever-ready smile...

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Jaithirth Rao

Area of darkness

Professor Sheldon Pollock has just announced scholarships for Dalit students who wish to study Sanskrit at Columbia University.

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Sudheendra Kulkarni

News on sale? That’s nauseous

Democracy lovers, wake up. What you and I value highly is being increasingly devalued. What you and I cherish and pride in is endangered....

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Meghnad Desai

The Rahul Gandhi Gamble

During the first general election of 1952, a candidate of the Rama Rajya Parishad who was standing against Pandit Nehru asked him....

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Coomi Kapoor

Help the little ones live

In the many speeches and statements on the Children's Day last week, no one talked of millions who have died in infancy.

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Saubhik Chakrabarti

Breaking Down Newsrooms

Unusually but, and I hope you agree with me, justifiably, this edition of the column shifts its focus beyond what was on news TV.

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Bibek Debroy

Back to BOP

There is a story, of doubtful historical veracity, about Christopher Columbus and an egg. Once he discovered America, his critics argued that he had done nothing great.

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Dhiraj Nayyar

eBay Watch

The rapid spread of H1N1 (swine flu) across countries has underlined the power of a potent virus to propagate itself.

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Amrita Shah

Banning liberty

People in Gujarat have become so accustomed to bans, particularly on films dealing with communal violence that they assume such products have been banned even when they have in fact not been banned.

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Shishir Gupta

Pak ISI station chief in Delhi dies of electrocution

In a significant development, the Pakistan ISI station chief, MK Afridi, at its High Commission in Delhi got electrocuted 'while drying his hair late Sunday night at his Vasant Vihar residence.

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Husain Haqqani

Let the politics begin

The opening session of Pakistan’s newly elected National Assembly has raised hopes and revived fears about the country’s...

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Arnab Sen

17K beckons!

He was recently called ‘grandpa’ by Yuvraj Singh in a post match press conference after India won the third ODI in Delhi.

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Neha Attre

Door-to-door garbage collection to kick off from May

The door-to-door garbage collection facility in the city will take off by May next year. This facility is part of the Rs 42.92 crore-Solid Waste Management scheme, which is going to be implemented und

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