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An argument won

Tuesday 10 November '09

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s speech to the World Economic Forum’s India meeting was remarkable for its clarity. He laid out the priority...
Present tense

Tuesday 10 November '09

It was the unlikeliest of developments to be passed off as a birthday present. The truce between Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa...
Village voice

Tuesday 10 November '09

From the stick to the carrot. Instead of making a rural stint mandatory for doctors, the health ministry has now outlined a plan...
Uneasy truce

Tuesday 10 November '09

It is likely that the truce between the Reddy brothers and Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa is momentary.
Why we sign

Monday 9 November '09

Your editorial “Sign and forward” (IE, November 5) is strange and disappointing. You are wrong in saying that those who are campaigning for Kiran Bedi....
Thaksin again

Monday 9 November '09

Is it cricket to employ a neighbour’s fugitive prime minister?
States of the BJP

Monday 9 November '09

What Shivraj Chouhan’s ‘outsider’ controversy says about the party
Meeting of minds

Monday 9 November '09

G-20’s consensus: crisis is not yet over. India should listen carefully...
‘There’s no question of public campaigns to choose the Chief Information Commissioner’

Monday 9 November '09

Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner, feels that civil servants have nothing to fear from the Right to Information Act. In this interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Habibullah talks about his work in upholding the Right to Information Act, the changing profile of civil servants and his new assignment in Jammu & Kashmir ....
‘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...
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