Area of darkness

Monday 16 November '09

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

More than numbers

Tuesday 6 October '09

The potential for spin-offs in the Unique ID project is being underestimated

Why Jaswant is wrong

Tuesday 1 September '09

Jaswant Singh’s book is a brilliant landmark encompassing accepted and contrarian views. According to him, Partition...

Set the record right

Friday 21 August '09

A brief history of India’s Left and its stints in power....

Ten months, full circle

Saturday 11 July '09

September 2008 was less than a year ago. Lehman Brothers collapsed. AIG got nationalised. Merrill got taken over. Washington Mutual disappeared.

Views from the hilltop

Friday 12 June '09

How under-appreciated Ruskin Bond is as a historian of our times

Can the BJP change?

Tuesday 26 May '09

The party needs to rethink its agenda and its manner

Three more reforms, Dr Singh

Wednesday 20 May '09

Fix education,police and judiciary, and NREGA — and your legacy’s defined

Can banks be defended?

Saturday 28 February '09

But remember bad money and crony capitalism are the worst enemies of free markets

Talking it over

Thursday 22 January '09

A little pop sociology is needed to understand Pakistan’s elite

Cops without borders

Wednesday 17 December '08

Investigating terrorist crimes may not be as simple as just setting up a new agency

When they come again

Monday 1 December '08

It will happen again. And soon. Probably in another Indian city. The objectives of the terrorists are clear. One, weaken India’s economy which has been robust in the recent past, giving hope that poverty can and will be eliminated in our lifetimes.

President Change

Thursday 6 November '08

Virginia was the intellectual centre of the old South, of slavery, segregation and the doctrines of racial divisiveness. And now, 143 years after the end of the American civil war, it votes for a black candidate to be the next president of the US

A new class theory

Tuesday 14 October '08

My daughter called me sounding upset. She had come across a press report that India’s teachers are angry because...

It ain’t broke

Monday 6 October '08

Avoid the wrong lesson from the financial crisis

Cheques and balances

Monday 29 September '08

This is verily the Autumn of Discontent for American Financial Capitalism if not for America itself.

With all due respect

Saturday 6 September '08

I came across a news item that the government of the friendly country Switzerland is opposed to India engaging in nuclear commerce...

India won’t, can’t give up

Monday 1 September '08

The text of a speech the prime minister should give on Jammu and Kashmir, addressing the people of the state.

The I(ndia)-Phone

Friday 22 August '08

What Apple needs to know about us as it brings us its iconic product

Police stations, reloaded

Monday 4 August '08

Our electronic media finds it fashionable and useful (apropos of TRP ratings) to criticise India’s police and intelligence services after every terrorist bomb blast.

The ghost of '74

Monday 14 July '08

Everyone is focused on how important nuclear energy is going to be in the future and that’s the stated reason why we need the agreements with the United States...

Do we need a foreign policy?

Wednesday 2 July '08

Dear prime minister, here’s some advice on how to deal with your critics

Those empires of carbon

Wednesday 25 June '08

The King of Saudi Arabia is an honourable man. He has come out against high oil prices despite the fact that these very prices...

Ben saved the Bear

Monday 16 June '08

As soon as I got back from my one-week visit to New York, despite pleas of jet-lag, everyone wants to know my instant...

The way of the tiger

Tuesday 3 June '08

One of the most heartrending moments in the Ramayana is the tragic death of Jataayu, the vulture-king, in his vain attempt to defend Sita as she is being abducted by Ravana.