Opinion

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One equation can lead to another

Kuldip Nayar · Mar 17, 2006 · 6 min read

By Kuldip Nayar UNFORTUNATELY, both China and Pakistan have reacted adversely to the President Bush-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh nuclear agreement. There is no...

By Robert Clements

Staff Reporter · Mar 17, 2006 · 3 min read

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 ...

Uma Bharati Defies The BJP

Praful Bidwai Uma · Dec 12, 2005 · 8 min read

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...

What hypocrites are we..!

Robert Clements What · Dec 12, 2005 · 3 min read

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 ...

A challenge for Indian leadership

Staff Reporter · Nov 25, 2005 · 7 min read

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...

Death certificate

Staff Reporter · Nov 25, 2005 · 2 min read

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...

Is this the magic moment?

Ishtiaq Ahmed Without · Mar 3, 2005 · 8 min read

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...

One-room revolution

Zofeen · Mar 3, 2005 · 5 min read

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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Staff Reporter · Mar 3, 2005 · 1 min read

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Breeze of change among Muslims

Praful Bidwai If · Feb 7, 2005 · 14 min read

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...

A chance for power projection

Praful Bidwai The · Jan 10, 2005 · 8 min read

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...

Report fron London

Staff Reporter · Jan 10, 2005 · 5 min read

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...

Golf is a game. Yet it can be business, too.

Mohinder Singh In · Dec 5, 2004 · 4 min read

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...

When a Poor Woman Adopts an HIV+ Baby

Susan Philip Little · Dec 5, 2004 · 6 min read

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...

Let the law follow its course

Imtiaz Mir Advocate · Dec 5, 2004 · 7 min read

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 ...

The troubled Northeast

Surendra Mohan In · Aug 7, 2004 · 7 min read

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...

Pluralism and Islam

Dr · Aug 7, 2004 · 7 min read

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 ...

Political crisis in Nepal must end

Staff Reporter · Jun 19, 2004 · 8 min read

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...

Politics and Rajya Sabha nominations

Staff Reporter · Jun 19, 2004 · 4 min read

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...

The 'tainted' debate

Rajeev Dhavan · Jun 12, 2004 · 8 min read

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...

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