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Saturday 21 November '09

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.

Maps for lost parties

Friday 13 November '09

Why this schizophrenic response to the Left’s poll reversals?

Incredible India's software

Wednesday 4 November '09

Delhi airport will be the pride of the Commonwealth Games and one can already witness signs of improvement. On the hardware.

The dithering government

Monday 26 October '09

Common Cause organized a seminar in Delhi on administrative reforms. One of the themes was 'Revamping Delivery Systems and E-Governance'.

324 years, 100 days

Monday 26 October '09

Not long ago, even after 1991, there was a time when dispute resolution data were only available with a time-lag of around seven years.

Growth, bubble wrapped

Monday 19 October '09

Good news is filtering through. The index of industrial production grew by 10.4 per cent in August 2009, FDI was $3.27 billion in August, FII inflows...

The way of all recommendations

Thursday 15 October '09

Within the govt system, success rate in implementing recommendations of assorted commissions, committees and task forces is low.

Om School

Saturday 10 October '09

The Hindus: An Alternative History Wendy Doniger Viking Pages: 779 Rs 999

The curious case of Manish, Vanish and ICICI: Or, why we need more competition in banking

Friday 9 October '09

ICICI has a Do Not Call registry too. But that applies to tele-marketing alone. We clearly have a grey area in the law.

Lost in comparison

Wednesday 7 October '09

The Human Development Report (HDR) for 2009 (with data till 2007) has been published. Too often, there is fixation with India’s rank...

Abatement costs

Thursday 1 October '09

India's per capita GHC emissions will be between 2.77 and 5 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2031-32, well below global averages.

The insurgent’s mind

Friday 25 September '09

Rebels like Kobad Ghandy fudge on the Naxals’ brutality, but hear them out....

QED, evolution

Saturday 19 September '09

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Richard Dawkins Bantam Press 470 pages 5.99 pounds

Bamboo grass

Friday 18 September '09

CCS is pushing a petition to PM, Agriculture Minister and Environment Minister that bamboo should be declared a grass, not a tree.

How many ideas, Sir-ji?

Friday 18 September '09

A huge dilution has taken place in the unique ID programme...

Plastic surgery?

Saturday 29 August '09

Many countries are shifting away from paper banknotes. Will India?

The poverty of programmes

Thursday 27 August '09

There has been systematic embezzlement at local level with official connivance in the implementation of central welfare schemes for the poor.

Three kinds of drought

Wednesday 19 August '09

Will Monsoon 2009 bring clarity to ways of empowering the farmer?

FTA with ASEAN

Thursday 13 August '09

Finally, the India-ASEAN free trade agreement will get off the ground in Bangkok, after six years of haggling.

Regarding the guards

Wednesday 5 August '09

Why police reform must lead the UPA-II agenda

Unsteady state theory

Tuesday 28 July '09

Will the food security legislation get us out of the subsidy mess?

Let us become an observer to NAM, rather than a member

Monday 27 July '09

The debate over the Sharm el-Sheikh joint statement continues. But independent of those issues, there is another one, flagged in Meghnad Desai's recent column.

AICTE bribery and arrests

Friday 17 July '09

If the Member-Secretary and Chairman of AICTE are involved in bribery, the rot runs deep.

In defence of Kapil Sibal

Friday 17 July '09

In reactions to what he proposed, we have a revisiting of core principles again

The non-enforceable Section 377

Friday 10 July '09

I wonder whether those who get uptight about Section 377 of IPC have bothered to read it.