Columns

Exiting EU

Exiting EU

Why it is no longer taboo to talk of this in Britain The recent death of Margaret Thatcher reminded the British of her epic battles with Europe. Thatcher wanted the European Community to focus on econ......read more

The cost of compliance

Chit funds need smarter, not tighter, regulation The ongoing debate on the financial scandal involving the Saradha group in West Bengal has put the focus on chit funds, one of the oldest but still poo......read more

Laws for citizens, and by them too

Institutionalising a mandatory process of consultation and dialogue would democratise not just law-making, but the state itself The formal institutions of India’s parliamentary democracy have provided......read more

For all our children

It is heartening that the draft children's policy includes needs of those with disabilities With the National Policy for Children, 2013, the government is making a concerted effort to not only protec......read more

With China, keep it real

Delhi must focus on honestly discussing serious differences, and finding practical solutions The Chinese premier Li Keqiang’s visit to India this week is a good moment to inject much-needed realism in......read more

From The Discomfort Zone

Laddership gaits

My aspiring, ambitious corporate friends on fast-track careers are in a great hurry to reach the top. When pausing for breath in their laddership gaits, they inevitably ask me about how to better focu......read more

Flip Side

Conspiracy of theories

Individuals and issues that are making and faking news Indian politics tends to defy all existing political theories and philosophies. There are coalitions within coalitions, fronts within fronts, dua......read more

Fifth Column

Socialist residue

In the drawing rooms of Lahore last week I met old friends who told me that I had become a hate object in the eyes of the ‘liberals’ they knew in India. I took this as a compliment since I know that m......read more

Inside Track

Signing blindly

In the collegium to select a new member of the National Human Rights Commission, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj disagreed with the majority’s choice of Justice Cyriac Joseph. The minutes of the meetin......read more

Breaking Down NEWS

Bundles of Noise

A month on, as CNN's ‘Situation Room’ looks back at the Boston bombings and the shootout in the suburb of Watertown, the unnerving thing is that no one is screaming. If the incident had happened in I......read more

Fitzgerald's New World

For him, Hollywood was the club to which he was denied entry At the end of the 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s narrator Nick Carraway casts his mind back to imagine an undiscovered......read more

Don't cry for cricket

Fans need to be angry and BCCI needs to reach out to them It was a day of untold sadness and vast opportunity. Three players betrayed their fans and their team and dragged our game into much notoriety......read more

Printline pakistan

Printline Pakistan: The third coming

A register of reports and views from the Pakistan press Nawaz Sharif will return as prime minister for the third time. He won a historic mandate in a terror-scarred election and left the much-hyped Im......read more

When it is right to copy

Intellectual property litigation is not a binary battle between the rights-holder and the infringer. It involves larger issues of public interest. The Delhi University photocopier case underlines this......read more