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Arun Shourie May 26, 2009
Arun Shourie delivered a memorial lecture at the The United Services Institute in honour of their former Director,Maj. General Samir Sinha.
Faisal Devji May 26, 2009

The non-state solutionSubscriber Only

From LTTE to Taliban and India’s Maoists,militant groups in South Asia want self-rule rather than state capture
A. S. Kalkat May 26, 2009
A rough draft for political change already exists in the accord of 1987
Shailaja Bajpai May 26, 2009

TV’s ‘now what’ momentSubscriber Only

What will news do now that all drama has been wrung out from cricket and elections?
Abhinav Chandrachud May 26, 2009

Secularly swearingSubscriber Only

Oaths with God: a sign of ‘accommodationist’ secularism
Jaithirth Rao May 26, 2009

Can the BJP change?Subscriber Only

The party needs to rethink its agenda and its manner
Prithviraj Datta May 25, 2009

Why we have dynastiesSubscriber Only

Dynastic politics isn’t a problem — it’s a symptom
Ila Patnaik May 25, 2009

Mind that debtSubscriber Only

Pranab Mukherjee’s first task will be to prevent a fiscal crisis
Coomi Kapoor May 24, 2009

Doon squadSubscriber Only

Doon School will have a larger representation in the 15th Lok Sabha than ever before.
Sudheendra Kulkarni May 24, 2009
May 16 has reinforced my two inter-related beliefs about the behaviour of the Indian voter.
Tavleen Singh May 24, 2009

A deja vu governmentSubscriber Only

It was not so much Dr Manmohan Singh’s new ministers but the Tamil tableau that enthralled me last week.
Meghnad Desai May 24, 2009
I once met an LSE alumnus who had become a millionaire by restoring the fortunes of firms gone broke.
Soli J. Sorabjee May 24, 2009

The inscrutable voterSubscriber Only

The 2009 elections have again demonstrated the inscrutability of our voters.
Bibek Debroy May 23, 2009

Second chance at reformSubscriber Only

Why the track record of UPA-I tempers hopes about UPA-II
Jeremy Carl May 23, 2009
American optimism and the new Lok Sabha
Yubaraj Ghimire May 23, 2009

Partisans for peaceSubscriber Only

The United Nations Mission has not been an unbiased mediator in Nepal.
Saubhik Chakrabarti May 23, 2009

The ‘others’ in news TVSubscriber Only

‘Others’: a minefield of a word. Anthropologists,sociologists,cultural studies theorists and,er,others in social science disciplines...
Ruchika Talwar May 23, 2009

Great expectationsSubscriber Only

The Congress’s sweep to victory has sparked fresh hope of repairing bridges between India and Pakistan...
C. Raja Mohan May 22, 2009

Where east and west meetSubscriber Only

Agenda for Dr Singh’s new term: the long overdue strategic outreach to the Muslim world
Aijaz Ilmi May 22, 2009

Speaking out,finallySubscriber Only

What a turnaround in five years! Though the Indian Muslim may have seemed adrift and divided...
Baijayant Jay Panda May 22, 2009

How to be a PappuSubscriber Only

“What’s the secret of Naveen Patnaik’s success?” is the question I’ve been asked innumerable times in the past week,almost always by friends outside Orissa.
Shubhra Gupta May 22, 2009
Our movies have moved on,but the ‘angry young man’ defined two decades of Hindi cinema
Malini Aisola May 22, 2009

WHO gets what roleSubscriber Only

India is playing for high stakes in a public health and innovation treaty. It musn’t blink
Seema Chishti May 22, 2009

The verdictSubscriber Only

Congratulations to the common people of this country who,instead of being hostage to some political parties...
kumar ketkar May 21, 2009

Mask upon mask in the BJPSubscriber Only

No wonder it is confused now.The BJPs’s multiple personality disorder stems from its very origins.
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