Monday 9 November '09
“The elegant white columns are now covered with hoardings”, journalist-author Sam Miller and told an adoring crowd at Delhi’s Oxford Book Store today, “But as anyone who has got lost in Connaught Place will tell you, the sense of circularity remains.”Wednesday 28 October '09
The kickback revelations of Indian envoy Meera Shankar are the result of a US law regarding American companies that bribe foreign officials. India, however, has no such parallel....Tuesday
27 October '09Demographics, Mumbai hobble opposition to Congress in MaharashtraFriday
9 October '09Chhattisgarh-based doctor BINAYAK SEN was arrested in May 2007 for his alleged links with Naxalites. Following a public campaign for his release, he was granted bail by the Supreme Court in May 2009.Thursday
24 September '09With Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh and Haryana facing Assembly elections next month, ticket-seekers and their cars parked across Copernicus Marg in Lutyens’ Delhi is causing major traffic jams on the busy stretch in the rush hours of late.Monday
21 September '09Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch...Thursday
10 September '09Furious that campus elections had been postponed, students of Madhav College, Ujjain went on a rampage in 2006.Thursday
6 August '09Disability rights activists have welcomed Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal’s Lok Sabha speech, made before the landmark...Tuesday
4 August '09Responding to concerns raised by activists that the Right to Education Bill excludes disabled children from its ambit....Monday
3 August '09The Right to Education Bill, likely to be passed by Lok Sabha on Monday, is at the centre of a new row with disability activists alleging....Wednesday
29 July '09When Republicans describe tax cuts for the rich as ‘tax relief’, says renowned cognitive scientist George Lakoff, the listener imagines a hapless victim suffering pain and understands the need to relieve him.Friday
3 July '09The Delhi High Court’s historic decision to decriminalise gay sex equates “sexual orientation” with gender, caste, and religion....Friday
3 July '09Expanding the scope of an Indian citizen’s rights by equating “sexual orientation” with the Constitutionally protected identities of gender, caste, religion and race...Friday
3 July '09You seem to have gathered much evidence that homosexuality is not a disease...Friday
3 July '09For the lawyers arguing to decriminalise homosexuality, it became crucial to demonstrate the actual harm that Section 377 caused...Wednesday
1 July '09The Delhi High Court’s verdict on the validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal code is likely be pronounced on Thursday.Wednesday
1 July '09What Shopian and Shiney tell us about our rape laws...Saturday
30 May '09The current Lok Sabha has 81 MPs who are 40 years old or younger, an achievement considering the average MP is in his mid-50s...Tuesday
26 May '09In May 2007, Illina Sen, 57, was holidaying with her mother in Bengal when she got a call from her husband, Chhattisgarh-based doctor Binayak Sen....Monday
18 May '09To see Mumbai the Bal Thackeray way, just hang around his house.Thursday
7 May '09As the heat in Delhi hits forty three degrees, the crowd waits patiently under a massive blue-white cloth-tent.Saturday
25 April '09I can never endorse violence; I have always condemned violence in any form, whatever the justification.Thursday
23 April '09"I only saw (sitting MP and Congress candidate) Sandeep Dikshit when he was campaigning in 2004. I voted for him, but haven't seen him since. All these politicians are the same. I'm sure even (BJP candidate) Chetan Chauhan won't come back once he is elected."Thursday
23 April '09In 1979, under the mild English sun, Chetan Chauhan played the innings of his life — a record-breaking first-wicket partnership of 213 runs with Sunil Gavaskar.Tuesday
31 March '09L.K. Advani recently asked the UPA to pressure Swiss banks to reveal their Indian account holders. Vinay Sitapati explains the context:
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