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Good intentions cannot justify bad delivery (14 March 01:41) |
| Enthusiasm is no substitute for clarity. The flaws in the Women’s Reservation Bill are not in the laudable intention but in the clogged delivery. |
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Virtual jihadis threaten www (14 March 01:08) |
| On Sunday evening, i am scheduled to participate in a net debate on an issue that has disturbed me for some time: the marginalization of the Right from the liberal space. |
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Womens Bill least radical of all reservations (14 March 01:07) |
| I give only one cheer for the Women's Reservation Bill, not two and certainly not three. Of all the reservations we have devised to transform society, this will transform the least. |
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Think before you buy art as investment (14 March 01:03) |
| There is little need to pay attention to the spectacular individual success stories of a particular Tyeb Mehta or a Souza selling at more than a million dollars. |
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I dont know what the Maoists want but I can mediate (14 March 12:59) |
| Much of Mahasweta Devi 's writings are inspired by the tribals of Bengal and Bihar. Her work offers valuable documentation of these marginalized communities. |
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Be modern be civil to domestic servants (07 March 07:19) |
| A hundred years ago, according to a recent book, domestic servants constituted Britain's largest source of employment. |
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Cant be in Husains shoes… he doesnt wear them (07 March 07:18) |
| Nobody can ever be in M F Husain's shoes, mainly because he doesn't wear them. Perhaps that's where it starts — at Husainsaab's unshod feet. |
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Higher oil prices no reason for inflation (07 March 07:17) |
| Price controls do not quell inflation, and abolishing price controls won’t accelerate inflation. Many politicians and readers will disagree. |
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I cat expect Praab to pay to put every child ito school (07 March 01:59) |
| Kapil
Sibal has made the huma resources developmet miistry a hub of itese
activity. He has made the Class X exam optioal ad he is pilotig a slew of
radical legislatio through parliamet. Is t... |
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This the 18000th piece on Budget (07 March 01:57) |
| If you are an unemployed house-husband like me, one of life's little joys is the free Internet searches one can do on any topic, in between cooking meals. Searching news stories tells you wh... |
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How India lost the plot in talks (28 February 04:01) |
| Delhi lost its own plot one day before foreign secretaries Nirupama Rao and Salman Bashir sat down at Hyderabad House to reopen the dialogue between India and Pakistan. Salman Bashir came to... |
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A misplaced morality finished Varadarajan (28 February 03:34) |
| Senior CPM leader W R Varadarajan's tragic suicide provides no startling insights into the way a communist party functions. Varadarajan, who worshipped his party, was severely punished for "... |
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Are we choking funds to terrorists or their victims (28 February 03:32) |
| Various diaspora groups are often willing to give generously to those in greater need. But the rules created post-9/11 seem to fall hardest on charities and money transfers serving the commu... |
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Husain knows his Ramayana better than many pundits (28 February 03:30) |
| Photographer
and designer Ram Rahman is M F
Husain’s friend. More to the point, he is an activist - for the freedom to
speak. A founder-member of the artists’ body Sahmat, he laments
Ind... |
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Bihars economic miracle real but fragile (21 February 01:51) |
| When this column revealed in January that Bihar had averaged 11% growth in the last five years, many people asked “Do you really believe this?” |
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Talk without hope so theres hope for civility (21 February 01:50) |
| Sensible nations either go to war or negotiate peace; they don’t sulk. So it is sensible for India and Pakistan to resume talks at a formal level. |
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Just how Lonely is our Planet (21 February 01:50) |
| Strange, how certain destinations manage to capture the collective imagination of world travelers and become magnets for those in search of the asli experience. |
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The fall of Sania Mirza - into oblivion (21 February 12:08) |
| So Sania Mirza lost to Tatjana Malek in the first round of the Pattaya Open recently. Earlier she had been eliminated in the first round of the Australian Open by Aravane Rezai. Sania’s ea... |
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Songs are part of the script not separate from the film (21 February 12:00) |
| It's been a busy week for Aamir Khan, who joined and then resigned the committee formed by the human resource development ministry to discuss changes in the 1957 Copyright Act. When he quit ... |
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Sharp descent for Padma awards – and the Republic (14 February 02:31) |
| You have to be naïve to believe that the awards process is free of government interference. The obedient will always be allotted their corner a little askance of the deserving. |
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Why Sena needs to pass a loyalty test (14 February 02:28) |
| Assuming Islamabad has an equivalent of the committee of the great and good that decides on India’s Republic Day honours, it may find it worthwhile considering something innovative: honour... |
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If there was fraud would presidents walk into my home (14 February 01:08) |
| NRI
hotelier Sant Singh
Chatwal was sailing in the Caribbean on
his yacht - having flown there in his private plane - when Sunday Times reached
him for an interview on the raging controversy... |
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Consumers should have choice on Bt brinjal (14 February 01:05) |
| Given the tremendous lack of credibility of food, drug and agri-business companies, the question is: can we trust this research? |
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Two stunning victories for civil society (14 February 12:54) |
| Two events in recent times argue for a different idea of public space. One is the debate on Bt brinjal and the other is the encounter between Shah Rukh Khan and Shiv Sena. |
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Danger from the New Brahmins (07 February 02:17) |
| Indian democracy is in danger of subversion by a self-confident,aggressive, articulate, patriotic and well-meaning force, the oligarchy of the successful. |
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Start preparing for oil at $200 a barrel (07 February 02:14) |
| The Kirit Parikh Committee is the third such committee to suggest decontrolling petroleum product prices. Probably politicians will again refuse to do so, and instead decree a modest increas... |
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2010 The Year of the Tiger — Grrrrr (07 February 02:00) |
| Oooooh!! Aren’t we scared??? Come Valentine’s Day — February 14 — and the Chinese Lunar New Year will be upon us! This is the Year of the Tiger, folks. |
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No one expects China or India to become carbon neutral (07 February 01:47) |
| NASA's recent figures show that the last decade is the warmest recorded ever, that polar ice is melting and global temperatures are increasing. So those who try to use this criticism as an e... |
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Lets not confuse peace with love (07 February 01:39) |
| The recent 'Aman ki Asha' initiative drew a lot of attention around the country. While the campaign did receive a lot of praise, it also, as expected, had a fair number of skeptics. |
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Dont teach English to your children in Class I (31 January 12:10) |
| A recent news report highlighted the fact that only 48.3% of Indian children in Class 1 could read the English alphabet, even in big capital letters.
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Mind your language were all Indians (31 January 12:10) |
| For someone whose fluency in the languages of the Aryavarta is fairly basic, there are few things more exasperating than being caught in the crossfire of incomprehension at social gatherings... |
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We need private firms in defence (31 January 12:09) |
| In theory the Republic Day parade is an exposition of our military strength. In practice it might have become an exposure of military fragility.
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Can we make clean green cities like China (30 January 11:44) |
| On an island near Shanghai, plans are underway to house a million people in what will be China’s first Eco-city. |
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I am ready to talk to Maoists but will not accept violence (30 January 11:41) |
| Shibu Soren is back in power - his third stint as chief minister of Jharkhand. After having weathered corruption and murder charges in the last one year, Soren hopes to see better days for h... |
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Save earth from human nature (24 January 01:58) |
| The ever evolving definition of hell needs a Delhi update. Hell is being trapped in a steel tube ensnared in the evil fog of an airport tarmac.
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The aristocratic Commies Kolkata is crumbling (24 January 01:50) |
| Ask any Bengali of a certain class and vintage what he or she feels about Jyoti Basu and you might get a totally schizoid response.
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It would be great to see Indian techies in South Korea (24 January 01:39) |
| South
Korean president Lee Myung-bak is a man
of action. As mayor of Seoul, he veritably transformed his country’s
capital. Can he do the same for relations with
India, Indrani Bagchi aske... |
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Asian giants can imbibe Europes values (24 January 01:26) |
| Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the contours of world order remain in the making. But two "mega-trends" seem clear: the broadest and deepest wave ... |
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Indias selfish elite holds the Republic back (24 January 01:04) |
| It is perplexing how the world's most populous democracy is so flawed. How can a country, whose elections are cited as an exuberant example of people-power, produce governments that serve th... |
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What if Pakistanis land at our border (17 January 03:15) |
| A good friend from Lahore, an activist deeply committed to people's rights and the integrity of Pakistan's legal structures, asked me a question so startling that it took a while to sink in. |
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India needs more Argumentative Indians (17 January 03:13) |
| Earlier this month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attended the awards ceremony hosted by the Infosys Foundation as a proud parent: his daughter Upinder was being awarded the prize for histor... |
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Soya dal a great solution to the food crisis (17 January 03:11) |
| The biggest outcry against inflation relates to the 40-50% price rise of some pulses — arhar, masoor, moong — to almost Rs 100/kilo. Pulses — dals and other protein-rich crops like gra... |
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I allowed myself to be used but now I will be selfish (17 January 01:31) |
| The Samajwadi Party (SP) is in a turmoil following its high-profile general secretary Amar Singh's decision to put in his papers. |
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Wipe off his smirk and that of others (17 January 12:41) |
| Suppose, just suppose, S P S Rathore wore a solemn expression when he came out of court that fateful day couple of weeks ago? Instead of that, the former Haryana director general of police h... |
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Why Jyoti Basu could not be PM (10 January 12:58) |
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Why did Jyoti Basu describe the decision to deny him the prime minister’s office in 1997 as Indian Marxism’s “historic blunder”?
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Living shrines versus dead monuments (10 January 12:50) |
| I was both enthused and disappointed when i visited the Ajanta and Ellora caves last week.
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When in Paris dont splurge like a tourist (10 January 12:49) |
| The Bangladeshi fruit-seller right outside the Segur metro station in Paris offered me pineapples at a discount.
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Ask whats our cause not whats mine (10 January 12:32) |
| So, we are in 2010. Remember the presentations, plans, articles, studies and forecasts from a couple of decades ago - many of them had titles like Vision 2010, India Superpower by 2010, Mar... |
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First they called me a joker now I am a dangerous thinker (10 January 12:26) |
| Slávoj Zizek is an unusual philosopher with unfashionably inflexible left-wing views. He also loves Hollywood classics. The 59-year-old academic has written more than 30 books on subjects a... |
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I want to make films that are fun but not frivolous (03 January 05:13) |
| Bollywood director Karan Johar has never shied away from experimenting. From themes like ‘loving your parents’ to ‘loving another man’s wife’, he has tried it all. Sometimes it wor... |
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