Has to re-establish the goodwill the United States has lost

Thursday 6 November '08

For a nation that gave its black population the right to vote just 44 years ago and for a nation that found it hard to digest the civil rights movement, to overwhelmingly elect a leader who is half black, has the middle name of “Hussein”, and just one term as a senator, is to my mind a turning point in US politics and perhaps its future.

We can learn from Jaipur

Sunday 18 May '08

The terror strikes in Jaipur have come as a rude reminder of the fact that India continues to be a target for many organisations and outfits...

Cracking the reservation riddle

Monday 22 May '06

We should create enough opportunities to make quotas irrelevant