Why many from not-so-prosperous areas of state have turned to Dera

Monday 28 May '07

In the districts of backward southwestern Punjab like Bathinda, Sangrur, Mansa and Muktsar, the Sacha Sauda Dera has acquired a phenomenal following. In Bathinda, District...

Behind Dera-Sikh clash, the shadowboxing

Sunday 27 May '07

The Akal Takht ultimatum on closing down all Sacha Sauda Deras in Punjab is meant to run out tomorrow. If there is a Ground Zero of the spectre that overhangs Punjab, it is here...

Script to fit the role

Monday 14 May '07

Mayawati can be an effective leader if she stops being the BSP’s only leader

The CD, the son, the country

Monday 23 April '07

BJP, Congress practise politics of fragmentation. They don’t speak for India

Mumbai, Punjab, UP, now Delhi: Cong faces urban anger from aam aadmi it can’t see

Sunday 8 April '07

In the Congress, after the municipal election rout here today, the hunt for the culprit has begun. Was it Sheila Dikshit, or her detractor/s in the party?

Court cites landmark US case to make the point: Govt should look beyond quota

Friday 30 March '07

The Act for 27% OBC quotas will unleash a “social catastrophe,” divide the country on caste basis, cause “anarchy,” “seriously affect social and communal harmony.”

The game’s in the middle

Thursday 8 March '07

Can we stop looking for legal solutions to political problems?

They lend him their year

Monday 4 December '06

In Nitish’s Bihar, hope for change still trumps distrust of government

Yes, PCs have come but where’s the Internet, where are the teachers?

Sunday 26 November '06

That’s what change does in a Bihar village used to despair. A computer centre with 3 terminals doesn’t sound much but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar brought these here under his flagship scheme. Plugging the villagers into hope — and increasing impatience over no power, no midday meal, no teachers

Declaration of Independents

Monday 16 October '06

Jharkhand’s Koda ministry signals another break between voter and elected

At IBSA summit, quota lessons for I from B & SA

Monday 11 September '06

As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves for Brasilia to take part in the first India-Brazil-South Africa summit...

The House we live in

Wednesday 16 August '06

Why is Parliament so important? Because 60 years on, political mobilisation is still unfinished

The vote for India

Wednesday 14 June '06

Within the sprawling and well-resourced democracy-promotion community in US, there is loud thinking, becoming louder, about India’s possible fit in their project in Iraq and across the world...