Their Fathers' Sons are Rising, but Look Elsewhere for the Real India
IMPRESSIONSFrom Nitin Gadkari to Mamata Banerjee, all politicians describe controversies surrounding them as media creations. Which is like looking at a pimple on your face and calling it a mirror...
View ArticleAgenda for Reforms?
“What's in a name?” asks Juliet in Shakes-peare's Romeo and Juliet. “That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet,” she says. (Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)But Juliet could not...
View ArticleObama: New Twist to the ‘Melting Pot'
At the end of America's costliest and nastiest electoral battles, widely predicted by analysts to be ‘hung' like the George Bush-Al Gore encounter in 2000, President Barack Obama made history as the...
View ArticleAung San Suu Kyi's Discovery of Nehru
The grace, dignity, candour and transparency with which she spoke while delivering the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture in the Capital yesterday (November 14), that is, on the occasion of our first...
View ArticleThreat of Genetic Contamination
SUPREME COURT PANEL CALLS FOR BAN ON FIELD TRIALSIt is being widely and increasingly realised that the commercial spread of GM crops or even other GM crops (such as Bt cotton) can be extremely...
View ArticlePalestinians' Plight, Rohingyas' Predicament, Mumbai Girls' Harassment
Seeing shots of complete disaster in the Gaza belt, one is left wondering where are the so-called world leaders who talk of peace! Where is US President Barack Obama, who ought to start his second term...
View ArticleIrrefutable Facts
by T.R. KRISHNANMuch has been written lately on the delay in completing the process of renovating and modernising the Russian aircraft carrier, Gorshkov, and the cost escalation this delay entails....
View ArticleAung San Suu Kyi and Plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims
COMMUNICATIONThis letter was sent to us when Aung San Suu Kyi was in India but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.Two persons died in police firing on a rally protesting against the...
View ArticleNortheast Asia Island Conflict
Japan has got embroiled in disputes over islands with China, the Russian Federation and South Korea. These disputes, historical in nature, have become acute recently, with no settlement in sight. The...
View ArticleChina's Emerging Order
FROM N.C.'S WRITINGSVisiting China for the fourth time in thirty-six years does not make it dull or monotonous by repetition. Particularly today when Deng Xiaoping at the advanced age of 88 is leading...
View ArticleAn Anatomy of the Rapes in Haryana
Haryana these days is in the news for the wrong reasons. There have taken place many incidents of rape of women of weaker sections in the State during the past one month. The media has been projecting...
View ArticleRevisiting the Dialogue of Inclusive Education: The Indian Course
November 11 is marked as the National Education Day in India. It is a day to commemo-rate the great educationist, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who envisioned education as the “birthright of every citizen”....
View ArticleDon't Think We Are Morons
The joint press conference held by Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal in Delhi on November 16 is ghastly even by the low standards of public morality Indian politicians...
View ArticleToo Much Power At Centre
Whatever happens in the next general elections—my bet is in early 2013—India will emerge an extremely divided country. The usual assumption that the two main political parties, the Congress and...
View ArticleIs Renaissance Possible in Islamic World Today?
by ASGHAR ALI ENGINEERWhy have I put a question-mark? Is there any doubt about it? Yes, very much. It would be too simplistic to assume that the potential for such a change already exists and it is...
View ArticleFundamentalism — the Oldest Folly
by A. RASHIDDictionaries define a fundamentalist as ‘one who believes in the literal interpretation and the infallibility of the Bible' as if fundamentalism were unique to Christianity alone. This...
View ArticleFundamentalism and Secularism
On November 27 this year falls the fourteenth death anniversary of distinguished administrator P.N. Haksar, one of the country's foremost thinkers. On this occasion we remember him by reproducing an...
View ArticleNot the Friends in Need
by JAYA JAITLYIf India had stood solidly by the forces fighting to restore democracy in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi may have made this country her first stop when she travelled to receive encomiums around...
View ArticleWhy Hanging Kasab Did Not Make Anyone Feel Any Safer
There was a time when I felt so proud to be an Indian. I was proud of India's achievements, especially of our stand in the international field. We were the champions of the Non-Aligned Movement, we...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Justice Katju
by JAVED ANANDDear Justice (Markandey) Katju,As a former judge of the highest court in the country and as a defender of free expression in your current capacity as Chairperson, Press Council of India,...
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