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Why can’t we strike shock, awe?Subscriber Only
March 30, 2003 00:00 IST
It would not be untrue to say that there is widespread, silent support in India for the war on Iraq. Not only have there been fewer anti-war...
Sun, Mar 30, 2003Come on Bush, stop this morality talkSubscriber Only
March 23, 2003 00:00 IST
The war on Iraq has begun and we are forced to take sides. George W. Bush, who sounds more and more like John Wayne in one of those black an...
Sun, Mar 23, 2003State gives lessons in tokenismSubscriber Only
March 18, 2003 00:00 IST
Tokenism rather than real education is the leitmotif of Uttar Pradesh education even in the schools that Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh...
Tue, Mar 18, 2003Joshi class: all ears, nose pressedSubscriber Only
March 17, 2003 00:00 IST
From Badalpur, we drove towards Aligarh and stopped in a small town called Sikandarabad to inspect the Agarsain Inter College which is a ...
Mon, Mar 17, 2003All Maya, Joshi’s ‘strides’ invisibleSubscriber Only
March 16, 2003 00:00 IST
A glossy propaganda pamphlet that the Ministry of Human Resource Development recently issued as testimony of its ‘‘achievements...
Sun, Mar 16, 2003Why dig into the past? Let’s move onSubscriber Only
March 16, 2003 00:00 IST
Let me begin by saying that I cannot make any sense of the excavations currently underway in Ayodhya. What was the Allahabad High Court thin...
Sun, Mar 16, 2003There’s nothing serious about development, it’s just showtimeSubscriber Only
March 09, 2003 00:00 IST
There are times when the Indian political circus is more entertaining than anything Bollywood can produce and last week gave us one such cla...
Sun, Mar 09, 2003Economic reform is fine, what about administrative changesSubscriber Only
March 02, 2003 00:00 IST
Why is it only in Budget week that we, the people, sit up and take notice of the economy? For this one week, all manner of the average India...
Sun, Mar 02, 2003Holy cow! Look what they’re talking aboutSubscriber Only
February 23, 2003 00:00 IST
There are moments when politics in India acquires a surreal quality and we are currently in the throes of one such bizarre moment. How else ...
Sun, Feb 23, 2003In times of Hindutva, Ram Rajya is forgottenSubscriber Only
February 16, 2003 00:00 IST
What a sad irony that Ayodhya should be in the news once more, and once more for the wrong reason. As the mythical capital of an epic whose ...
Sun, Feb 16, 2003What the Powell show teaches IndiaSubscriber Only
February 09, 2003 00:00 IST
So, has America succeeded in making a case for war on Iraq? As you might have done, I spent the Wednesday evening last week watching the liv...
Sun, Feb 09, 2003How about changing this regime, Bush?Subscriber Only
February 02, 2003 00:00 IST
The only Indian news that came to Davos, from where I write this week, was that George Fernandes warned Pakistan that it would be ‘...
Sun, Feb 02, 2003The republic of a chosen fewSubscriber Only
January 26, 2003 00:00 IST
What more appropriate time to make an assessment of the state of the republic than on Republic Day? At the risk of being vilified (yes, I re...
Sun, Jan 26, 2003The Congress cat in its ninth lifeSubscriber Only
January 19, 2003 00:00 IST
Not even in its worst moments of past defeats has the Congress party looked as vulnerable and desperate as it has done since Italy ki beti t...
Sun, Jan 19, 2003About my family and some animalsSubscriber Only
January 12, 2003 00:00 IST
When you have written a weekly column for as many years as I have you learn that sometimes the Gods intervene to change the subject. So, thi...
Sun, Jan 12, 2003Happy 2003, in the name of SaraswatiSubscriber Only
January 05, 2003 00:00 IST
The first column of a New Year usually leaves me searching for issues that match the sense of occasion that a new year brings. So, though at...
Sun, Jan 05, 2003It’s time to unwrap Vajpayee’s birthday gifts to the countrySubscriber Only
December 29, 2002 00:00 IST
The Prime Minister celebrated his 78th birthday last week with his annual distribution of largesse. This time, he gave the villages of India...
Sun, Dec 29, 2002Your Lordship, several points of orderSubscriber Only
December 22, 2002 00:00 IST
Last week, a new Chief Justice of India took office. We have had four this year, so the change can hardly be described as momentous and I wo...
Sun, Dec 22, 2002After Rajiv, Before ModiSubscriber Only
December 15, 2002 00:00 IST
Some of the political commentary that the Gujarat election inspired has left me as worried about secularist amnesia as I am about Narendra M...
Sun, Dec 15, 2002Disinvestment: All about moneySubscriber Only
December 08, 2002 00:00 IST
Anyone who still believes that the debate on disinvestment in the public sector is about ideology and not simple filthy lucre needs to think...
Sun, Dec 08, 2002The camera doesn’t lie but govts doSubscriber Only
December 01, 2002 00:00 IST
If anything fully reveals the squalid morality of the Vajpayee government it is the Tehelka story and yet, despite Justice K Venkata-swami&#...
Sun, Dec 01, 2002Where love is obscene, but not hunger deathsSubscriber Only
November 24, 2002 00:00 IST
WE have a strange idea of obscenity in India and last week was a good one to see it in operation. In Mumbai (once the cosmopolitan city of B...
Sun, Nov 24, 2002Sonia power, so far from governanceSubscriber Only
November 17, 2002 00:00 IST
If it were not evil it would be amusing that Sonia Memsahib should dare to mention the word governance in a state in which people are dying ...
Sun, Nov 17, 2002Socialist shame in the people’s nameSubscriber Only
November 10, 2002 00:00 IST
It is the view of this columnist that India would have been a rich country years ago were it not for our pernicious, peculiarly anti-people...
Sun, Nov 10, 2002To Mrs G, with love from NDASubscriber Only
November 03, 2002 00:00 IST
It took me a few moments to register that I was not in some surreal time warp and that it really was Indira Gandhi on Doordarshan’s nat...
Sun, Nov 03, 2002Journalism of Courage
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