Safe landing in 2007?

Monday 1 January '07

Land use in India, and this year’s question: Cornwallis or Munro?

Across shadow lines

Tuesday 26 December '06

In Le Carre’s latest novel, the protagonist lives between worlds. And as we accompany him on his journeys, we too turn into secret agents engaging with the traumas within ourselves

Trust this invisible advice

Saturday 25 November '06

Dr Singh completes half his term. Imagine Milton Friedman assessing him

Not by George

Thursday 9 November '06

The point about America’s elections isn’t Bush. It’s America

Tongue twist of fate

Monday 30 October '06

Yes, there are two Indias. No, ruling classes won’t admit English can join the two

Our gambling-baksheesh spirit

Saturday 21 October '06

A Diwali primer on the pursuit of wealth and happiness

Sometimes, a hawk must wear kid gloves

Saturday 23 September '06

John McCain is a conservative but his stand on torture is a timely reminder that the free world cannot win the battle against medieval fanatics if it doesn’t remain true to its moral heritage and political freedoms

Business as usual

Monday 11 September '06

Five years after 9/11 notice how little it affected global economy

Where we can trip

Monday 17 July '06

The more we self-flagellate, the more we fall into the terrorist’s trap

Tarry, the tortoise way

Monday 3 July '06

If we build ‘excess’ infrastructure, we risk not being able to pay for it

Catching up on Dom

Monday 19 June '06

In the literary English village of Hay-on-Wye a shared memory called Dom Moraes

Beginning of end for Al-Qaida?

Saturday 10 June '06

Those of us who have believed all along that the Anglo-American coalition was strategically correct in moving into Iraq...

Quirk Express

Wednesday 31 May '06

We must have the right to watch the movies we want to see. An argument in favour of the eccentric Indian

Privatise affirmative action

Friday 26 May '06

The need of the hour is the ‘Vaishya-isation’ of all of India’s castes

The good economist

Tuesday 2 May '06

His economics was a bit wonky but he was an intellectual in the classical mould

Flowing with the left

Thursday 20 April '06

Can the state seize our property for infrastructure projects?

City limits, from silly point

Friday 31 March '06

In puritanical Mumbai we have all given up, says Jaithirth Rao

In market for faith

Monday 13 March '06

I, for one, am now convinced that the Hindu love affair with free markets will ensure on-going strength for this religious product portfolio.