Friday 9 January '09
When India and Pakistan thrashed their issues out in TashkentFriday 26 December '08
While the laws against terrorism, passed after the horrific Mumbai terrorist attack, have been generally welcomed...Friday
12 December '08Almost exactly 51 years ago — on December 16, 1957, to be exact — there took place in the Lok Sabha one of those memorable debates that have, alas, become a thing of the past.Friday
5 December '08Since, as Rahul Gandhi famously put it only the other day, 70 per cent of the country’s population consists of “bachchas”, it is obvious that a vast majority of Indians today know little about what happened 46 years ago.Sunday
30 November '08A memoir of the Valley caught in the crossfire — where surrendered militants dream of discotheques and landmines are strapped on boysFriday
14 November '08On the 119th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru it seems appropriate to recall a dramatic moment in his many-splendoured but also much criticised life.Friday
31 October '08Reorganising states along linguistic lines was always a fraught, emotional matter.Friday
17 October '08Since the issue of civilian control over the military has once again come to the fore, an account of the successive events in the evolution...Friday
3 October '08In January 1966, after Lal Bahadur Shastri’s sudden death in Tashkent, Congress party bosses, collectively nicknamed...Sunday
28 September '08Krishna Bose’s personal and political lifeSaturday
13 September '08New Delhi has to come out of a history of softness on ChinaThursday
4 September '08H.Y. Sharada Prasad, who died on Tuesday after prolonged illness patiently borne, was a thorough professional...Tuesday
15 July '08Amdist the great excitement about the July 22 confidence vote, escalating polemics between the Congress...Friday
27 June '08The politics of the nuclear deal has everyone saying everything at the same timeThursday
19 June '08There is perceptible relief in the country that talks between the Gurjjars, aggressively agitating for Scheduled Tribe status...Wednesday
4 June '08Is a crisis of leadership in the national parties inhibiting new challengers in the states?Monday
19 May '08Most bizarrely, Arjun Singh’s mis-statements may in no way endanger his present positionThursday
3 April '08For long years, an odd copy of National Herald had been a rare sight anywhere. But this once highly influential daily...Monday
24 March '08It is astonishing that Beijing has denounced the Dalai Lama in such intemperate languageThursday
13 March '08Congress must take a tricky call. When to call the general election and how?Tuesday
15 January '08India is suddenly a land teeming with unrecognised leaders of stature.Friday
4 January '08Even by the standards of dynasty, the Bhutto succession is undemocratic and weird.Sunday
16 December '07A well-documented inquiry into the Delhi riot cases and the lapses that delay the delivery of justiceSunday
2 September '07From the late 1930s to well after independence, Phillips Talbot sent letters to an American think-tank on how to understand India. His accounts of meetings with leaders like Nehru, Rajaji and Jinnah provide a first-hand assessment of that fascinating decadeMonday
27 August '07Why blame Congress and Left? Coalitions are still a work in progress at the Centre
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