Thursday 29 May '08
As Nepal transits from over two centuries of monarchy to a new republic, what should our thoughts be? Here is a landlocked country...Saturday 16 February '08
Media coverage of ‘insider-outsider’ politics in Mumbai has raised anxious questions. Only media can answer themWednesday
16 January '08When she said ‘you campaign in poetry but you govern in prose’, Senator Hillary Clinton...Tuesday
31 July '07In Goa, the political economy of land is distorting the institutions and practices of democracyFriday
22 June '07The intuition is spot on; the timing, right; the intervention, appropriate. Yet it doesn’t go far enough. The prime minister’s statement...Wednesday
6 June '07The winning social and political coalition in Goa holds promise. But will it be fulfilled?Tuesday
15 May '07A society that fails to protect its freedoms will be denuded of its life force. The vandalism at MS University in Baroda is yet another portentThursday
3 May '07The titles we gave our leaders marked the special bond we forged with them. That political culture has wanedTuesday
17 April '07A few Left intellectuals did question CPM in the land acquisition debate. But on the ‘BJP’ CD, not a boo from intellectuals on the RightFriday
30 March '07Left intellectuals’ statement on Nandigram shows why Left intellectualism is so damaging, argued Pratap Bhanu Mehta in this newspaper this week. Peter Ronald deSouza carries forward the discussion by exploring the larger ‘syndromes’ that afflict India’s intellectualsFriday
16 March '07In India, the Constitution is a living and trumping document. It is not so in Pakistan and BangladeshTuesday
19 September '06Koda is CM but the good news is that some constitutional institutions played by the rulesSaturday
26 August '06What was “urbane”, “cosmopolitan” Natwar Singh doing in a Jat rally in Jaipur? He was testing a political hypothesis: no party, the Congress in this case, can really completely ignore a spolier who discovers identity politics.
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