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Modi fires up diplomacy engine
9 Sept 2014 3:01 AM ISTCivil nuclear energy deal is one that matters to an energy starved country like India. Though a deal of this nature could not be signed during the...
First milestone lays bare Modi’s bipartisan nature
9 Sept 2014 1:01 AM ISTThe cliché about India – whatever you say about it, the opposite is equally true – can be applied to Narendra Modi too. Thus, his growing number of...
Zawahiri stirs communal cauldron filled to brink
9 Sept 2014 12:59 AM ISTThere is an expression in Hindi, ‘Soney pey suhaga’, suhaga being the powder which makes gold shine. In a volatile social situation, where communal...
Surging waters, slipping earth
9 Sept 2014 12:56 AM ISTFor generations, fishermen along the coast of Chennai have been able to locate their daily catch with almost scientific precision. Today, fishermen...
Remove coal block irritants fast
7 Sept 2014 4:30 AM ISTCoal mining issues are getting murkier increasingly in the country. Like the previous Congress led-government, the incumbent NDA too seems groping...
Some math to sustain democracy
7 Sept 2014 4:29 AM ISTWithin weeks of winning the Lok Sabha elections with a surprisingly large margin, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance has...
Don’t take away my right to (mis)education!
7 Sept 2014 2:54 AM ISTHad I been the dictator of India, I would have introduced Gita and Mahabharata in class one. That is the way you learn how to live life,’ declared one...
Love in times of love jihad
7 Sept 2014 2:52 AM ISTShoot me’ he said, with his hand on his chest. ‘There is no greater glory than to die for love.’ If today someone asks me what I feel is the epitome...
From green horn to giant slayer
6 Sept 2014 4:37 AM ISTPrime Minister Modi’s honeymoon with the public continues even as he completes 100 days in office. There are mixed reports about his performance as...
Crime and supreme sentiments
6 Sept 2014 4:35 AM ISTIn a landmark ruling on the legality of people with criminal antecedents being appointed as ministers, a five-judge constitutional bench, headed by...
Teacher’s day? No thanks
6 Sept 2014 2:55 AM ISTStudents should ideally have nothing to do with it. Like seniors and senior citizens have little role to play on Children's Day. In my time, most (I...
All the ageing, raging bulls of Congress
6 Sept 2014 2:53 AM ISTSO WHAT’S EATING JANARDHAN DWIVEDI?Senior Congress leader Janardhan Dwivedi ko gussa kyon ata hai? The All India Congress Committee general secretary...