| MANMOHAN SINGH An embattled Manmohan Singh fails to give a convincing defence of his government's actions | |
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RSS: INVESTIGATION A desperate RSS writes to the PM | |
EXCLUSIVE RED BELT FLAGSHIP SCHEMES Ill-managed, UPA development schemes have brought no relief in Maoist-hit areas | | MINING: PLATINUM Its platinum-gold finds could deepen state-Maoist conflict | | POLITICS: AP Telangana stir to take the Mahatma's path | | INTEL AGENCIES: REFORM Long overdue, a taskforce report on how to reform our intel agencies | | THE SECRET DIARY OF Some of the latest data from our most recent VIP wire-taps (which I will later leak to Outlook magazine) | | | | FOREIGN POLICY: STRATEGY On the 20th year of its Look East policy, India gears up to woo ASEAN | |
PAKISTAN: DEBATE Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's detention ignites Pakistan, reopens old wounds | | | | BUSINESS: TAXATION Indian taxmen home in on foreign deals involving Indian companies | |
| | MERCY KILLING: ARUNA SHANBAUG Is it too much to ask for deliverance for Aruna? | |
HEALTH: TOBACCO An SC directive stubs out industry resistance | | GENDER: JOBS The roads are reverberating with a tough, reliable and new crossover: women chauffeurs | | | | CRICKET: WORLD CUP Powerplay, slow tracks, dew...survival techniques for Cup contenders | |
| | TRIBUTE Different gharanas came together at Sahela Re, Pune's tribute to Kishori Amonkar | |
| | REVIEW M.J. Akbar brings new insight to Pakistan's past, but fails to fully plumb its maddening present and possible future SUNIL KHILNANI ON TINDERBOX: THE PAST AND FUTURE OF PAKISTAN BY M.J. AKBAR | |
REVIEW Pamuk's poetics of the novel is informed by his craft and a 'non-western' specificity ALOK RAI ON THE NAIVE AND THE SENTIMENTAL NOVELIST BY ORHAN PAMUK | | REVIEW Scholarly but very readable book that documents how corruption, ignorance, social disparities afflict conservation efforts K. ULLAS KARANTH ON CONSERVATION AT THE CROSSROADS: SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND THE FUTURE OF INDIA'S WILDLIFE BY GHAZALA SHAHABUDDIN | | REVIEW A rather cutesy tale about how two cats foil greedy Chinese hoping to sell tainted pet food for huge profits. | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | REGULARS | | | PEOPLE Glitterati The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news | | | | | | | | | | | | | GOSSIP Polscape Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas | | | | | | | | | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011 | | | | | COUNTERPOINT The world, and the US in particular, is yet to respond unambiguously to the continuing adventurism of a nation that should have been declared rogue more than two decades ago AJAI SAHNI, TUSHAR RANJAN MOHANTY | VIEW FROM WASHINGTON Americans should stay away from idle talk in newspaper op-eds and elsewhere about "securing" Pakistan's nukes by force. Such chatter is not only unrealistic, but counterproductive BRUCE RIEDEL | | |
| | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2011 | | | | FROM THE WIRES Conspiracy theory accepted by the court but main accused Maulvi Umarji among those acquitted for the 2002 Godhra train burning | 2G SPECTRUM We are a functioning democracy and must strive to resolve our differences in a spirit of accommodation and collaboration not confrontation. This, I hope, will renew our confidence in India's forward march' MANMOHAN SINGH | RAJYA SABHA The leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha launched a scathing attack on the Prime Minister in his reply to the debate on the President's address in the budget session. ARUN JAITLEY | VIEW FROM ISRAEL ... and no power on earth can put it back. It is the genie of revolution, of renewal, of rejuvenation, that is now haunting all the regimes in the region. URI AVNERY | LIBYA Even by Col Gaddafi's standards, it was an extraordinary speech, full of melodramatic defiance against almost everyone, divorced from reality, delusional, long-winded and rambling MUAMMAR GADDAFI | THE EGYPT EFFECT And now a song adds to Chinese nervousness and gets blacked out by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security B. RAMAN | | |
| | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2011 | | | | | COUNTERPOINT And the faulty premise that negotiations with terrorists automatically mean capitulation by the state PRAGMATIC DESI | PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS (i) Combat inflation (ii) Address the concern regarding lack of probity and integrity in public life; (iii) Sustain growth with equity (iv) maintain internal and external security (v) protect our interests in global fora. PRATIBHA PATIL | | |
| | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2011 | | | FROM THE BLOGS An uneasy mix of the real and the surreal — the opulence of the dreamlike frames clashes unnervingly with references to actual events like Operation Bluestar and Babri Masjid NAMRATA JOSHI | | OPINION India continues to benefit not through a strategic or policy re-orientation but the sheer advantage of its size and diversity, as a range of insurgency or terrorism movements succumb to exhaustion. AJAI SAHNI | BAHRAIN The crisis in Bahrain poses a ticklish situation for Indian workers--particularly Indian Muslims, many of whom are believed to be Sunnis, particularly if the Shias ultimately succeed... B. RAMAN | BYLANES Legendary singer Bhimasena Joshi's eldest son from his first wife reclaims his father SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU | STATE SNIPPETS "Your government is not in a position to supply even 25 chairs but you are distributing lakhs and lakhs of televisions," raged Mr Justice M.Y. Eqbal PUSHPA IYENGAR | | |
| | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011 | | | | | OPINION It's hard to exaggerate the impact that a democratic Egypt will have on the entire region, as Cairo resumes its role as the fulcrum and wellspring of Arab identity, ideology and influence RAMI G. KHOURI | OPINION The 18-day uprising in Egypt is far from qualifying as revolution. Yet it is sending tremors throughout the Middle East, causing deep foreboding among some and jubilation among others DILIP HIRO | VIEW FROM THE UK Why is the UK Treasury frantically seeking to protect naked short-selling and strangle the directive by the European parliament to bring it to an end? GEORGE MONBIOT | OPINION Corruption is nothing new, but its magnitude is, as is the ineptitude, the incompetence and the lack of supervision which seem to prevail since this PM came to power B. RAMAN | | |
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