

Sunday 8 July '07
‘Field Marshal’ Ayub Khan posthumously diminishes his own place in Pakistan’s history with the publication of his diariesThursday 24 May '07
Are Manmohan’s first 3 years as PM that different from Indira’s? But are PMO and party talking now?Monday
7 May '07In House vs Court debate, MPs make a facile assumption. Why not ask them to win at least half the popular vote?Sunday
29 April '07Localisation of news has brought about immense changes in Hindi newspapers. In a comprehensive new study, Sevanti Ninan argues that socio-political change has also impacted Hindi journalismThursday
19 April '07While the judiciary must become more transparent, the legislature needs to be more accountableThursday
12 April '07In assessing judicial overreach remember what ‘committed judiciary’ did to our democracySunday
1 April '07Vikram Sarabhai was a living negation of C.P. Snow’s ‘two cultures’ theory. His biographer captures his science and his times.Sunday
25 March '07An absorbing account of the nuclear programme under Indira Gandhi.Thursday
15 March '07Marxist-DMK clash in House was not about ideology but crude, rival chauvinismsTuesday
6 March '07MI5 papers call Krishna Menon ‘sinister’. We know, we felt the consequencesTuesday
13 February '07Monday saw Karnataka in shut-down mode. The state’s reaction to the final award on the sharing of the Cauvery waters with Tamil Nadu...Saturday
13 January '07This week in Uttar Pradesh, an old political drama returned centrestage. No one dares predict how it will endThursday
28 December '06Mamata Banerjee’s ‘fast unto death’ is a case of hypocrisy, not GandhigiriThursday
2 November '06If other cities imitate what has been happening here, you can forget about double-digit growthTuesday
10 October '06Congress’s attempt to resurrect a three decades old slogan is a giveaway. The party has lost the ability to frame ideas for changing timesFriday
22 September '06Thailand has seen 18 coups in the past seven decades. A look at what the past can teach us about the latest oneWednesday
23 August '06The founding fathers did not intend Rajya Sabha to be Lok Sabha liteMonday
7 August '06This one-time Iron Lady of Orissa was both the symbol and a victim of Indira Gandhi’s distinctive style of politicsThursday
27 July '06Jaswant Singh has raised more questions than he is willing to answerSaturday
17 June '06What does cause a great deal of worry is that the Rajya Sabha has ceased to be what the founding fathers had envisaged it to be — the Council of StatesThursday
18 May '06The OBC quota reveals the inner conflict of the Congress partyWednesday
3 May '06Remembering John Kenneth Galbraith, the giant archer whose arrows were dipped alternately in wit and vitriolTuesday
25 April '06Pravin Mahajan’s murderous attack on Pramod Mahajan seems a replay of the Cain and Abel storyFriday
14 April '06P C Joshi, whose birth centenary is celebrated today, advocated Communist support for Nehru’s Congress 60 years agoFriday
17 March '06Inder Malhotra asks Jaswant Singh to read his objections to the nuclear deal with the US along with the revelations in Strobe Talbott’s recent book