Tuesday 19 December '06
Sixteen years on, the Bhutanese refugees languish in the camps of southern Nepal. India cannot, it should not, continue to ignore their predicamentSunday 17 December '06
Since it is a truth widely recognised that all prospective, possible, potential, promising probable prime-ministerial candidates of the BJP in 2009 must know poetry...Saturday
9 December '06Checking crimes against dalits was one of the most urgent tasks post-Independent India had set for itselfSunday
3 December '06Our honourable Members of Parliament have displayed a keenness for cricket that is exceptional...Saturday
2 December '06It could well represent a turning point for dalit politics in MaharashtraSunday
19 November '06I caught up with the pop-star of the neo-cons, the rum-stud of the Republicans, in his Georgian-style home in St Michaels...Wednesday
15 November '06Sanitation here lacks political ownership. Who has ever heard of a slogan like, ‘Bijli, sadak, paani, shauchalaya’?Sunday
5 November '06The antics of young Nikhil Deve Gowda have reinforced our faith in political progeny. After all, when a boy wants a snack at 3 am, and he happens to be the chief minister’s sonSunday
22 October '06And for another Diwali, a few sparkling thoughts and general observations that you are invited to ignore...Thursday
19 October '06Five stinging truths about the dengue-chikungunya onslaughtThursday
12 October '06A magnificent novel of human breadth and wisdom. That was how the judges described the novel that won this year’s Man Booker Prize for 2006...Wednesday
4 October '06Bapu has returned, and not just because of one film, or because of commemorations of the satyagraha centenary. We are searching for a centre in a period of great transition and conflictSunday
1 October '06Gee, I don’t do book reviews gen’rally, ‘cos I don’t read books. See sometimes as prez’dent one has to read books but I try an’ get Condi to do the readin’ for me...Sunday
17 September '06You must be following Jharkhand mamla on TV and newspaper, no? How four brave ministers of NDA...Wednesday
13 September '06And what it tells us about a state called Maharashtra and a country called IndiaSunday
3 September '06The other day I happened to be passing by the BJP headquarters at 11, Ashoka Road, New Delhi, when a flurry of high musical notes...Tuesday
29 August '06A new report on the state of the national capital offers timely lessons for rapidly urbanising India, given that half the country’s population is expected to be urban-based by the year 2030.Sunday
20 August '06“Lord, you have blessed me with an ambitious son. Do I need to say more? By the way, you did not bless me with a great brother either”Friday
18 August '06That term again. Office of Profit is back in news with the Lok Sabha agreeing to set up a joint parliamentary committee on the subject. An explainer to help you understand and recall why and how a constitutional obscurity keeps hitting national headlines.Tuesday
15 August '06Three big moments that changed the way India looked at the second sexSunday
6 August '06We moles believe that if we have to dig for dirt, there has to be enough of it. In this case, as far as I can gather, not one of the charges have stuckThursday
3 August '06Over the years, philosophers have tried to evolve rules for the conduct of warSunday
23 July '06‘‘We first blocked access to 17 websites. We may have lifted this now but this troublesome community of half a million potential terrorists, also known as bloggers, knows we are watching them...TV channels are next’’Tuesday
18 July '06Post-7/11 trauma: Mumbai can learn from New York and LondonSunday
9 July '06There is more emotion packed into this one event than probably anything Ektaa Kapoor can conjure up in a billion years — and that goes for chest-beating, finger-pointing, screaming, sobbing, wailing
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