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The tinpot looks for a kettle

Instead of being worried about fate of 'Scheduled Castes' in India & elections in Kashmir, General Pervez Musharraf should worry about elections in Pakistan which are increasingly looking like a joke.

Ravi Kant Veerappan

Which one, Veerappan or Ravi Kant Sharma, is a greater national shame is a difficult question.

Last night I went to Pakistan

The UN would probably never accept it as a yardstick for its human development ratings. But put this away under my name in the...

When unleaded turns leaded

When ‘polarisation’ is the buzzword in our politics, it will be even more dangerous than communal divide because it will undermine the faith in our system of governance, democracy.

Our Pak’s Americana

It is one thing to peg our entire relationship with Pakistan to Musharraf ending terrorism. But must we tie our larger relationship with the US also on Musharraf ending terrorism?

When it rains neglect, it pours

You can't blame the weatherman for bad weather. But in the past decade, scientists have got used to lazily rushing into a 'normal monsoon' forecast. This year we are paying the price for that.

Mera loot mahaan

Cooking of books so that promoters can siphon off large fortunes overseas is so common that we are no longer even outraged by it.

Reshuffling an empty deck

Vajpayee's cabinet reshuffle is not based on performance or track record but on balancing and assuaging egos and ambitions.

The Breach Candy dilemma

Delhi believes that power produces money; Mumbai produces money through enterprise and believes that money buys power.

His Rashtrapati Reward

My favourite nuke story of all times goes back to 1987. Bundled up deep into the anonymity of the wide-bodied economy class on a...

On Camera

NEET is too high-risk for pen-and-paper tests. It needs a fraud-proof online process

Unless the loopholes are fixed in the NEET system, no matter how many culprits are caught and punished, new ones will continue to emerge.

Siddaramaiah defends fuel price hike amid protests by BJP — ‘don’t we need money for development?’

BJP alleges the hike will be put towards bankrolling Congress govt's 5 guarantees in Karnataka, while CM Siddaramaiah says hike is to 'increase resource mobilisation, increase income'.

Stryker, predator drones, space, Pannun and Indo-Pacific dominate NSAs Doval & Sullivan’s talks

Two-day visit by US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan seen as critical to both countries' focus on convergences in the relationship rather than differences.

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.