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Inder Malhotra IT says something about the Union government that it took several months to hold a meeting of the state chief ministers on soaring food prices wh...
By Robert Clements "India is well on its way to being the rape capital of the world. With most offenders taking solace in the idea that they can get away with i...
A trilogy of national shame Inder Malhotra WITH striking unanimity the media and public-spirited organizations in the country described the 25th anniversary of ...
Robert Clements ".Osama in Pak.er.Afghanistan." -TOI Dec 8th "Aha! In the caves of Pakistan..er..Afghanistan you look for me? But it isn't there I hide. I hide ...
Prof. A.C. Bose For decades the Congress or, for that matter, no political party, had it so good as the year 2009 has proved to be. They had a rather unexpected...
Robert Clements An MLA known for his disheveled, unkempt curly hair decided on a makeover and came out of the hairdressers looking so different that his followe...
Jawed Naqvi Kartar Singh - Saifuddin Saif, 1959. 'Film industries of both India and Pakistan are replete with people who are Partition victims. Hence, it looms ...
Robert Clements Creak! Squeak! Creak! I'm trying to open a window; amazed at the audacity of a government telling me what to do and when. "You can't buy liquor ...
BJP's ugly leadership crisis Praful Bidwai It is utterly nauseating that the leaders of some of India's biggest business houses have stooped to orchestrating a ...
Compassion for all living creatures (Article 51A) and human rights in its spectral dimensions, including the right to reform oneself out of a diabolic past, if ...
By Robert Clements People are wondering how Rahul Gandhi was suddenly made General Secretary of the Congress party. The cook told the driver who told me the con...
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Rajni In July the country 'celebrated' the cheapest car in the world, while the poor man's food, dal (pulses), sky-rocketed. With vegetables and meat having gon...
Papri Sri Raman "Please don't write about us. We will not get even this work and the little money we get," pleads Saraswatiamma, pausing under the hot mid-day s...
With every passing conference, we have constantly strived to improve ourselves owing to a belief that stagnation leads to decline. Onwards from that, this Tenth...
By Syed Ali Mujtaba Remember the Aamir Khan movie Taare Zameen Par? It dealt with the subject of a talented young boy, who was unable to cope with his studies d...
By Elisa Patnaik It appears that all that was needed to revive the Orissa State Level Complaints Committee on Sexual Harassment was a case of alleged sexual har...
By Anuradha Bhasin One of the most noteworthy comments of the Sixth Pay Commission (SPC) relates to the paucity of women in the central civil services: at prese...
Iraqi women search for new lives Nitin Jugran Bahuguna Hiba's fate was sealed from the moment her mother decided to leave her to her father in Baghdad, Iraq, at...
Prof. A.C Bose Following the Big-B's head-line capturing gesture refusing a doctorate degree of the Queensland University in Brisbane our minister for tourism, ...