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‘You can’t reform individuals but you can reform the system. Even corrupt officials won’t deviate from the system’

Sunday 8 November '09

In an Idea Exchange moderated by Special Correspondent Maneesh Chhibber, Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily talks about judicial reforms, pendency of cases, appointment of judges and politics in his home state....
Breathing space

Saturday 7 November '09

Relaxing some norms will increase medical colleges. But standards must not drop.
Sachin’s day

Saturday 7 November '09

As long as cricketers rise to the occasion, cricket will do fine
Proceed with proceeds

Saturday 7 November '09

The government finally moves on disinvestment, with a bold step on the money raised
Individuals matter

Friday 6 November '09

Even after 62 years of independence, we have not built and strengthened the institutions that are required to ensure that the fruits of democracy are enjoyed by our citizens....
439, 2009

Friday 6 November '09

A schoolboy shatters a record, and a hopeful nation exults
Ideas of progress

Friday 6 November '09

The prime minister takes his argument to Maoist sympathisers
Dangerous fears

Friday 6 November '09

RBI’s orthodoxy on interest rates and inflation is hurting the real economy
Three views

Thursday 5 November '09

Amidst the two extremes of the portrayal of Indira Gandhi by columnists — one as a scheming, ruthless autocrat and the other as a sagacious emancipator of the nation....
Dial EU for Europe

Thursday 5 November '09

The Treaty of Lisbon clears its last hurdle, meaning Europe finally has someone to call
For a toss

Thursday 5 November '09

The Services’ Ranji forfeiture at Srinagar needs a stern follow-up
Sign and forward

Thursday 5 November '09

Why do elite ‘civil society’ petitioners think their signatures trump democratic decision-making?
Sad legacy

Wednesday 4 November '09

Shekhar Gupta has drawn an objective portrait of Indira Gandhi’s complex persona with all her strengths and failings.
Afghan questions

Wednesday 4 November '09

It is by no means clear that the Obama administration has learnt from the terrible farce it has made of the recent exercise in Afghanistan to elect a new president.
A click away

Wednesday 4 November '09

It’s finally out. The judges of our Supreme Court put up details of their assets online on Monday. The move, billed by some to threaten judicial...
Luddite logic

Tuesday 3 November '09

As Saubhik Chakrabarti points out in ‘Mao TV, MoU TV. And Mahatma’, in recent television appearances discussing Naxalite violence...
Dirty business

Tuesday 3 November '09

If there is one sector that is visibly the intersection of backroom politics, crony capitalism and serious threats to India’s internal security, it is mining.
Conversation stopper

Tuesday 3 November '09

If Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir was a fresh sentence in a changing conversation, here’s something that...
Km by km

Tuesday 3 November '09

Last year when Haile Gebrselassie opted out of the marathon at the Beijing Olympics, it was not part of the general hysteria that had preceded...
Tailpiece

Monday 2 November '09

Honourable members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence are having a tough time trying to cope with JD(S) leader H D Deve Gowda.
A new tone on ‘Black Day’

Monday 2 November '09

Traditionally, the whole of Kashmir observes October 27 as Black Day in protest against the landing of Indian troops in Srinagar in 1947.
The race for DAE top job

Monday 2 November '09

After the change of guard at ISRO, another high-profile scientific position is up for grabs, that of Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
Ticket checkers to monitor security

Monday 2 November '09

After the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express was recently held up by tribals allegedly backed by Maoists in West Bengal...
List of formerly retired grows

Monday 2 November '09

It seems to be spring for retired bureaucrats and two newly-appointed interlocutors are not the only ones enjoying it.
Track 2 in J&K with former CIC

Monday 2 November '09

After naming Lt Gen V K Madan its interlocutor on the Gorkhaland issue, the Centre last week appointed former Intelligence Bureau director...
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