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Tigers and the Taj

From trivialising our wildlife resorts to defacing monuments, from killing tigers to burying our historical sites with rubbish, we display the same, very Indian index of callousness.

Sport without borders

To build excellence in any sport create domestic competition. In all great sporting nations, inter-state or inter-club rivalries are as passionate as between national teams at the Olympics.

The ‘Passwan’ factor

Ram Vilas Paswan, we all know, is the ultimate populist, so much so that he should, perhaps, change the way he spells his name -- just add an extra `S' .

Asia’s power brats

While we latch on to Vajpayee-the-ideal-PM aspect of the survey, we are missing out a very significant point: that power equations are changing so fast that a telecom moghul is at the top of the most powerful men list.

Venezuelisation of India

Not surprisingly, I have spent the past week thinking of Lou Bega, he of 'Mambo No 5' fame. Not surprising, because what else could...

United colours of memory

In the Sri Lankan civil war what coloured our judgment was not ethnic affections but the compulsions of Tamil Nadu politics. This was Rajiv Gandhi's great blunder.

The age of retribution

It is too early to write Mian Nawaz Sharif's obituary. From Mujib to Mandela to Benazir, post-War history is replete with instances of political...

The winner as underdog

Military historians will have a hard time resolving this one. Which date should mark the anniversary of the war in Kargil? May 3, when...

Media as dutiful wife

I have for long had this radical solution for an India-Pakistan problem: bring the negotiating teams of both countries to Delhi's Ashok Hotel, lock...

Unreformed on the tarmac

After wondering for an entire week why poor Yashwant Sinha got such bad press on his budget, I found the answer last week, in...

On Camera

Hasina’s was a trial in absentia, but not a trial without justice

The Sheikh Hasina trial represents an inflection point in the struggle to place citizens above rulers and prevent the next massacre.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

IAF’s leased KC-135 lands in Agra, American firm’s pilots to man mid-air refuller

India’s refueller fleet comprises six Russian Ilushin-78 tankers, first inducted in 2003, which are facing huge maintenance and serviceability issues.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.