Tuesday 3 November '09
As India remembered Indira Gandhi, an astute commentator pointed out that half of India's current population was not there in her time.Monday 2 November '09
There is a totally unreal aspect to the discussion on India’s stand on climate change. Some of our protagonists are stuck in the original Kyoto mould.Tuesday
27 October '09The government opening up the decision on Bt brinjal at the highest level when it has gone through the required technical and regulatory scrutiny, is not in the best tradition.Monday
19 October '09So big dams on the Brahmaputra are in fashion again. There is a grandeur in all rivers but the Brahmaputra is awesome. Miles across, it boggles the imagination.Friday
9 October '09The unusual floods in the Krishna and Tungabhadra basins bring out the frailty of man vs nature and man in society.Monday
21 September '09The debate on capitalism and its critics got a new life with the Asian meltdown and now the anniversary of Lehman Bros.Tuesday
15 September '09The role Norman Borlaug, who died on Saturday, played in the import of the dwarf “miracle wheat” seeds in the mid-’60s has...Friday
11 September '09The Indian position has developed since the failure at Cancun last year to a point where India brought the trade ministers to...Monday
7 September '09This identity question never really leaves a thoughtful Indian.Friday
21 August '09Sugar reform is half-done, so there’s none in stores...Thursday
20 August '09Admiral Mehta's parting cannon ball on India's security appropriately eclipsed the episode on a Chinese scholar talking of dismembering India.Tuesday
11 August '09There are three lessons to learn from the 1987-'89 drought policy in addition to the policies already announced.Saturday
1 August '09The McCain story is quite well known. I sometimes exchange cards with their Sahibs or with the Batas in CIGI meetings.Monday
27 July '09The reaction to the demands for security when withdrawn on professional considerations and to the frisking of Kalam Saheb has been of disdain on VIP privileges.Tuesday
21 July '09Some encouraging signs have been visible recently of the power ministry taking steps towards creating a market for the besieged power sector.Monday
20 July '09Yes we are global ma'am, well almost. Maybe not fully the way they told you so, but we are.Saturday
11 July '09The expansion of the G8 to the G14 is taking place with new structures being put together with hairpins and chewing gum.Thursday
9 July '09Bob McNamara was a phenomenon, and a complex one at that. Also, he was a phenomenon of my generation. In the mid-’60s, in College America, he was a hate figure. A former president of Ford...Monday
15 June '09Looking for speed-bumps in the 100-day planThursday
11 June '09Terminal 1D at Delhi airport is superb as far as they make them.Monday
1 June '09The election, the results, the new Government are all in and the Liberal Hour is behind us.Saturday
30 May '09Now that the election is almost over, I must admit I am a bit of a fanatic. Not a big one, but a small one.Thursday
21 May '09We lost Rajiv Gandhi on May 21 more than a decade and a half ago; he was in active politics for barely a decade.Tuesday
19 May '09Thank you Rahul for following the path Rajiv did in going out there and sticking to the truth.Thursday
14 May '09Two years ago, self-styled moral policemen stormed into an exam of the famous Arts Faculty of the Maharaja Sayaji University at Vadodara.
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