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By Kuldip Nayar UNFORTUNATELY, both China and Pakistan have reacted adversely to the President Bush-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh nuclear agreement. There is no...
Ever so often I receive a stinker of an email from friend or reader accusing me of giving simplistic solutions to gigantic problems. Yesterday I had a gigantic ...
Hindutva's crisis of strategy By Praful Bidwai Uma Bharati was expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party after defying its leadership in a fiercely combative man...
By Robert Clements What kind of hypocrites are we? Enough to be the laughing stock of the world: On one hand we have the moral police skirting every bar, beach ...
By O.P. Sabherwal The twenty-first century is witnessing a fast-changing international scene, with many complexities weaved in its emerging pattern. There are n...
By S Mukhtar The Deaths Clerk (popular as Mota Clark) was preparing the death certificate. He went on filling the relevant form as per the applicant's answers t...
By Ishtiaq Ahmed Without Punjabis from both sides agreeing to normalisation there can be no progress on Kashmir. The reason is not only the geographical contigu...
By Zofeen T Ebrahim Lal Khatoon was very excited the night she learned to write her name for the first time in her native language, Sindhi. She ran back home af...
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By Praful Bidwai If there is an Indian equivalent of the Tiger Woods phenomenon, where a young person makes an unexpected and dramatic impact on a sport and its...
By Praful Bidwai The colossal human misery wrought by the Indian Ocean tsunami has shocked the world. But for many agencies, the tidal wave has created an oppor...
The Mirage of a Middle East Gwynne Dyer You have to admire the dauntless optimism of the diplomats and commentators who are talking up the chances of progress o...
By Mohinder Singh In a recent poll, 75 percent of Fortune 500 CEO's regularly did business on the golf course. And now you have women CEOs joining in. There's e...
By Susan Philip Little Subha, 18 months old, is special. She's HIV positive, and she's adopted - technically, in foster care. Her adoptive mother, Sooriya, live...
By Imtiaz Mir Advocate The arrest of Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati in a murder case has evoked an agitational response from the BJP and other Sangh Parivar ...
By Surendra Mohan In order to crush the Quit India struggle launched by The Indian national Congress in August 1942, the imperial Government promulgated an ordi...
By Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy In summer 2001, while visiting the University of Maryland, I went to hear Qazi Husain Ahmad, emir of the Jamaat-i-Islami, lecture at the ...
MK Dhar Whether the United Progressive Alliance government's concern at the fluid political and security situation in Nepal will help early restoration of parli...
By K.V. Prasad What were the compulsions behind the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi's decision to nominate three senior leaders for the coming biennial electio...
By Rajeev Dhavan IS THE Bharatiya Janata Party only interested in paralysing Parliament? Or does it really care about 'tainted' Ministers and probity in politic...