Poor, powerless police

Monday 8 April '13

Can we agree to vote only for parties that promise to implement the police reforms?

A quiet hero

Friday 22 March '13

Viren Shah disproved the view that wealthy business leaders like to flirt with authoritarianism

Educator par excellence

Thursday 17 May '12

For Shirin Darasha, school was a democratic republic of talent

The Regulation Raj

Saturday 5 May '12

Our approach seems to be, 'Have problem, do a quick-fix''. We need to learn that ill-conceived fiscal fixes will not work

Prose by Another Name Wouldn''t Read the Same

Saturday 21 April '12

Christopher Hitchens died a few months ago. Lovers of English prose were dealt a serious blow.

Unpredictable business

Friday 13 April '12

Attacking tax havens is a cover to introduce the draconian GAAR

Letter from the Beyond

Monday 2 April '12

Rajendra Prasad and Ambedkar on retrospective changes to laws

From the Philippines, with gratitude

Saturday 24 March '12

India''s arbitrary policy environment has shifted IT and BPO jobs out of here, to more reasonable regimes

Back to school for Norway?

Tuesday 20 March '12

Telenor executives and social services officials, for starters, could do with some elementary lessons

Apocalypse is Nigh

Saturday 14 January '12

Like the professional pessimists of the 1930s, Jeffrey Sachs prescribes central planning to tide over the crisis

The irony mask

Saturday 14 January '12

Cho Ramaswamy''s play 'Saraswatiyin Shapatam'' is a caustic comment on our passivity and denial

The Great Lokpal Conspiracy Theory

Friday 30 December '11

This bill is a ploy to turn opinion against the judiciary, which is bound to strike it down

Shyam Benegal, family man

Friday 9 December '11

It is not easy for cinema to convey the complicated inner lives of families but Benegal pulls it off

Clout of the virtuous

Friday 25 November '11

The strange parallels between Germany and China

Elites don''t get it

Tuesday 18 October '11

That there is a larger purpose behind Mayawati''s public architecture

On a parallel track

Friday 30 September '11

Are we going to see a whole lost decade for the world economy?

If not for September 11

Saturday 10 September '11

Look at how that one clear, fateful autumn morning put so many folks in business.

When glee is complacency

Friday 2 September '11

Why India cannot afford to take economic growth for granted?

Erring on the side of good sense

Monday 29 August '11

Dr Singh, your party has clear precedents of 'accords'' with unelected leaders. Why were you quibbling over Constitution and Parliament this time?

With friends like this

Tuesday 23 August '11

Dr Singh, stop citing procedure look at the content of allegations.

Civil obedience

Wednesday 17 August '11

Why criminal prosecution is not the best option against corruption?

Clear the air and move on

Friday 5 August '11

Despite the recent 2G scandal and the longstanding murk in the telecom sector, the industry has been remarkably successful in India.

These contested acres

Monday 25 July '11

Why the Noida land judgment should not be seen as anti-market?

Let''s do it differently this time

Friday 15 July '11

Don''t give terrorists the satisfaction of having extracted a strong reaction from us

The district of goddesses

Thursday 16 June '11

How Kolhapur turned around its declining sex ratio