Opinion

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Bland talk on food prices

Staff Reporter · Feb 11, 2010 · 6 min read

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...

India's eves..!

Robert Clements · Feb 11, 2010 · 3 min read

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...

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

Staff Reporter · Dec 11, 2009 · 6 min read

A trilogy of national shame Inder Malhotra WITH striking unanimity the media and public-spirited organizations in the country described the 25th anniversary of ...

Osama's hiding place..!

Staff Reporter · Dec 11, 2009 · 3 min read

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 ...

The Congress won without really winning

Staff Reporter · Nov 10, 2009 · 7 min read

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...

No makeover for the MLA..!

Staff Reporter · Nov 10, 2009 · 3 min read

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...

Peace talks? See a movie instead

Staff Reporter · Oct 10, 2009 · 6 min read

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 ...

Close the windows..!

Staff Reporter · Oct 10, 2009 · 3 min read

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 ...

Big Biz and Modi's lies on Gujarat

Staff Reporter · Sep 23, 2009 · 8 min read

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 ...

By V R Krishna Iyer

Macaulay · Sep 10, 2009 · 6 min read

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 ...

Let mama guess..!

Robert Clements People · Sep 10, 2009 · 2 min read

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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Staff Reporter · Sep 10, 2009 · 1 min read

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Monitored food prices: Punishing the poor !

March · Sep 6, 2009 · 5 min read

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...

Sunset cover: NREGA for the elderly

Staff Reporter · Sep 6, 2009 · 7 min read

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...

Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai

Staff Reporter · Aug 6, 2009 · 11 min read

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...

Turning a dream into reality

Syed Ali Mujtaba · Aug 1, 2009 · 5 min read

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...

The politics of sexual harassment

Elisa Patnaik It · Aug 1, 2009 · 6 min read

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...

Pay panel's kindness may hurt women

Anuradha Bhasin One · Aug 1, 2009 · 6 min read

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...

Straight or Gay..!

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 6 min read

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...

'No' is no way to a settlement

Staff Reporter · Jul 5, 2009 · 5 min read

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, ...

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