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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Why Security Council is a distant dream (11 May 03:39) |
| Even though it’s been more than a year since I left the service of the UN, the one question people have still not stopped asking me is when India is going to become a permanent member of t... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Were the doomsayers right after all? (04 May 04:03) |
| The doomsayers of the 1960s said we'd run out of food; they said the environment was under threat. Now our attempts to solve one problem have made the other prediction come true.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Are North, South heading for a Cold War? (27 April 05:54) |
| Countries of the developing South are acutely conscious of China's sensitivities over its sovereignty, and countries of the developed North are outraged over Beijing's crackdown in Lhasa.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Can the Elephant dance with the Dragon? (20 April 01:38) |
| India and China are the two big countries said to be taking over the world, the new contenders for global eminence after centuries of Western domination.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Change from within, says Dalai Lama (14 April 01:31) |
| When the United Nations convened a Millennium World Peace Summit of religious leaders at its headquarters in 2000, one major religious figure was conspicuous by his absence. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: India's underclass gets upwardly mobile (06 April 01:42) |
| Back in 1975, having a telephone was a rare privilege: if you weren't an important official, you might languish in a long waiting-list and never receive a phone.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Why some engineers become terrorists (30 March 03:34) |
| Is there something about engineering that makes its most proficient graduates vulnerable to the temptations of violent extremism?
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: The strange case of Clinton vs Obama (16 March 01:21) |
| The Republicans have emerged with a credible candidate... while Obama and Hillary are going to spend the next several weeks trying to prove each other unworthy of office.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Birthdays: A truly beastly blessing (09 March 01:52) |
| It's true that each passing birthday marks a milestone on the road of life, something by which to measure the way you have lived. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Presidential system promotes nationalism (24 February 01:49) |
| When it comes to choosing a president, however, we have to accept that elections in our country will remain a messy affair.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: We need schools for all our children (17 February 03:48) |
| Education only succeeds if other factors work in its favour. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Let's not be the big bullies of cricket (10 February 03:28) |
| A senior BCCI official had privately joked that we were now strong enough, and rich enough, to behave in the ICC as the US has always behaved in the WTO. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: The daunting delights of Davos (03 February 08:04) |
| If you happen to run into a Davos returnee, have some sympathy for some of the signs of their recent travails. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Sarkozy: Low on dignity, high on humanity (27 January 05:35) |
| Democracies increasingly like citizens to believe they have control of their own destinies by placing them in the hands of leaders they can relate to.
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SHASHI ON Sunday: Let's play the game, not politics (20 January 05:27) |
| It is dangerous to act as if the undoubted financial weight of India in world cricket entitles us to our own set of rules.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Comebacks ignite US primaries race (13 January 03:13) |
| The results from the US primary elections in recent days have thrown up a fascinating contest for the Presidential nominations of both parties.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Democracy won't die with Benazir in Pak (06 January 01:42) |
| The widely-expressed view that Benazir epitomised Pakistan's hopes for democracy, which have now perished with her, seriously overstates both what she represented and the implications of her... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: The end of a long, enlightening journey (30 December 03:40) |
| Seventeen instalments ago we embarked in this space on a quixotic scheme: to compile a glossary of things Indian. But before we get there, there are a couple of other terms I should have def... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: India should switch to presidential system (23 December 03:21) |
| With the needs and challenges of one-sixth of humanity before our leaders, we must have a democracy that delivers progress to our people. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: It's time to rethink parliamentary system (16 December 01:32) |
| The disrepute into which the political process has fallen in India, and the widespread cynicism about the motives of our politicians, can be traced directly to the workings of the parliament... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Bane and boon: Traffic & vegetarianism (09 December 07:34) |
| India enjoys a long tradition of respectable vegetarian cuisine, which is more than can be said for almost any other culture on earth. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Kamalesh Sharma: He's the right choice (04 December 01:20) |
| The election of Kamalesh Sharma as Commonwealth secretary-general is a welcome development at various levels. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Where paradoxes reign supreme (04 December 01:20) |
| The old joke about our country is that anything you say about India, the opposite is also true. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Land of socialism, Tendulkar and tigers (04 December 01:20) |
| Back to our 'A-Z of Being Indian', in which we ask ourselves, alphabetically, about the shared cultural assumptions of our nationhood.... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Religion thrives in this land of secularism (04 December 01:20) |
| Though we ended the last instalment of our glossary of Indianness with "rice," we need to reverse up the dictionary a bit for the first couple of our entries this week. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Three Big Rs: Railways, Ray and Reliance (04 December 01:20) |
| Returning to our alphabetical catalogue of the things that help determine what it means to be an Indian — what better topic to start off with than...
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Should we be proud of Bobby Jindal? (28 October 01:43) |
| The election of Bobby Jindal as governor of the US state of Louisiana has been greeted exultantly by Indians and Indian-Americans around the world. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Let's promote the great Indic civilisation (21 October 01:32) |
| The Nehru Centre in London is a great asset for India, but why on earth is there only one such centre? |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Can India afford an ethical foreign policy? (14 October 01:37) |
| For many years after Independence, the answer to that question seemed an obvious one: we couldn't afford a foreign policy that was anything else.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: O & P: Opinions can be polluting too (07 October 01:12) |
| As may be readily apparent from this series, opinions flow from lndian tongues like the Ganga through Benares: profuse, stimulating and muddied with other people’s waste-matter. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Too bad we can't have a leader like Sarkozy (30 September 01:14) |
| Elected with just 51% of the vote, Nicolas Sarkozy has seen his popularity soar to an approval rating of nearly 70%. His decisiveness, his flair, his readiness to launch initiatives, have al... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: M & N: Monsoon, Mother Teresa & Nehru (23 September 01:17) |
| Months ago we began an impromptu glossary of the shared assumptions of Indianness. So far we've made it to the letter M, where we pick up the thread. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: 123 deal: A diplomatic triumph for India (16 September 01:23) |
| After 60 years of Independence, we have to learn to see ourselves as shapers of our own destiny, not helpless subjects of the will of others.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Leaders all: Lata, Laxman & Maruti (09 September 03:36) |
| It's glossary time again! Resuming our 'A-Z' of Indianness at the letter L. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: 'J' & 'K': From JP to the King Khans (02 September 01:27) |
| Our occasional glossary of the shared assumptions of our Indianness resumes this week. As Sheikh Abdullah might have said, let's see what we can do about J and K.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Indira, illiteracy & IT, that's 'I'ndia (26 August 03:08) |
| In a land of a million Indiras, there was still only one 'Indira'.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Are we afraid of taking risks? (19 August 03:17) |
| The temptation to see, in Indian cricket, metaphors for larger issues in our national life is often irresistible. |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: 'G' for Godmen and 'H' for Hinduism (15 August 10:48) |
| Hinduism is the sole major religion that doesn’t claim to be the only true religion, and the only religious tradition which allows for such eclecticism of doctrine that there is no such th... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: It's time to stop harassing M F Husain (15 August 10:48) |
| The question of why Husain doesn't paint Muslim figures in the nude is a red herring.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Husain's critics voice their angst (15 August 10:48) |
| I suppose I should have been braced for the inevitable backlash that came my way in response to my column 'Why is India's Picasso staying away?'
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Why is India's Picasso staying away? (15 August 10:48) |
| Husain must be able to return to live and work, free of frivolous lawsuits and the threat of assault, spending his last years in the land whose culture suffuses his work and whose culture h... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: 'G' for Godmen and 'H' for Hinduism (15 August 08:48) |
| Hinduism is the sole major religion that doesn’t claim to be the only true religion, and the only religious tradition which allows for such eclecticism of doctrine that there is no such th... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: It's time to stop harassing M F Husain (15 August 08:48) |
| The question of why Husain doesn't paint Muslim figures in the nude is a red herring.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Husain's critics voice their angst (15 August 08:48) |
| I suppose I should have been braced for the inevitable backlash that came my way in response to my column 'Why is India's Picasso staying away?'
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Why is India's Picasso staying away? (15 August 08:48) |
| Husain must be able to return to live and work, free of frivolous lawsuits and the threat of assault, spending his last years in the land whose culture suffuses his work and whose culture h... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: 'G' for Godmen and 'H' for Hinduism (15 August 06:46) |
| Hinduism is the sole major religion that doesn’t claim to be the only true religion, and the only religious tradition which allows for such eclecticism of doctrine that there is no such th... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: It's time to stop harassing M F Husain (15 August 06:46) |
| The question of why Husain doesn't paint Muslim figures in the nude is a red herring.
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Husain's critics voice their angst (15 August 06:46) |
| I suppose I should have been braced for the inevitable backlash that came my way in response to my column 'Why is India's Picasso staying away?'
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: Why is India's Picasso staying away? (15 August 06:46) |
| Husain must be able to return to live and work, free of frivolous lawsuits and the threat of assault, spending his last years in the land whose culture suffuses his work and whose culture h... |
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SHASHI ON SUNDAY: 'G' for Godmen and 'H' for Hinduism (15 August 02:41) |
| Hinduism is the sole major religion that doesn’t claim to be the only true religion, and the only religious tradition which allows for such eclecticism of doctrine that there is no such th... |
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