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SG Writings On The Wall

Stirrings in a hopeless land

Bihar is no more the least politically exciting state as its aspirations have moved on from the usual 'Bijli-Sadak-Pani'. It now includes 'padhai'.

Mr Dixit, I presume

J.N. 'Mani' Dixit, India's former foreign secretary, was an expert on Sri Lanka, an accomplished diplomat and a public servant Delhi didn't deserve.

Seizure in the Heartland

Here's a question for both, the pundit and the pollster. Or maybe it is just a truism suffixed with a convenient question mark: Could...

Poll notes of a limo liberal

If you laugh at parachute reporters, what would you call a genuinely motley gang of psephologists, investment bankers, editors, columnists and television anchors —...

Konark & fibre-glass ducks

You have to give them full marks for punctuality and feather-touch landings. Yet, it is difficult to cast away your prejudices against very old...

The error in terror

Speak with any New Yorker this week and his favourite line seems to be, "it was a day just like this". We sit looking...

The Kanchi Trinity

By the standards of the temples and religious establishments in the south, the Kanchi Kamakodi Peeth, better known as the Kanchi Mutt, is much...

Travels in Haryana’s Ahirland: Stirrings in out-of-sight, out-of-mind country

You cannot fault the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for not putting more prominent signs to announce the exit ramp for Rewari on...

Some lines in the desert

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is the last place you would expect to be in to speak at a college reunion. It's also an unlikely place...

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...

On Camera

More Andhra-style prawn fry for Indian plates? How Naidu’s trying to blunt US tariff hit on aqua exports

Naidu attempts to shield aqua farmers after Trump’s tariff hits the shrimp farming sector in Andhra Pradesh, leading to the cancellation of 50% of the state's exports.

Finnish giant ICEYE to build signature radar microsatellites in India, offers full control to govt

Company builds microsatellites that are smaller, faster, cheaper to produce. ICEYE will develop & launch micro-satellites, hand them over to India, which will have full control & sovereignty.

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.