Why 2 years after 9/11, this seems to be the New York state of mind: ‘It was just a day...
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12.082003July 24, 2015
Postal savings instruments to be dematerialised
In a move revolutionalising the small-savings market, the department of posts (DoP) has, in principle, decided to dematerialise postal savings...
05.072003November 17, 2015
The Kanchi trinity
Next to mutt is masjid, frowning at both is Periyar saying there’s no god, you fool. Recall this shining symbol...
07.062003November 17, 2015
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...
10.042003January 10, 2017
Havildar Shinde, Sergeant Romero
If we’re as sensitive to Shinde’s needs as the Pentagon was to Romero’s, we’d save many lives The unexpectedly large...
01.032003July 27, 2015
Politics in past tense
There could be a simpler explanation as to why this week’s ‘National Interest’ does not talk about the state of...
15.022003November 28, 2016
The HMT Advantage
From Kapil to Kalpana, Karnal to Cape Canaveral: Hail the rise of middle India While so many state governments rush...
14.122002July 27, 2015
Pseudo-campaignism
Despite all the confusion caused by opinion polls, exit polls and whatever the Gujarat throws up on Sunday there is...
30.112002July 27, 2015
Govt’s one foot, several mouths
IT seems that one of our former ministers visited Washington and caused so much confusion because of his pronounced Bengali...
16.112002July 27, 2015
The Modi Magnifier
The question in Gujarat is not who will win, or by how much. The first has been a foregone conclusion...
09.112002July 27, 2015
Making an ass of the taxpayer
In the usually sad and tragic Hindi movies of yore, often a Johnny Walker or Mehmood appeared anytime the going...
26.102002November 17, 2015
Some lines in the desert
At Riyadh reunion, air’s thick with perfume and nostalgia; outside, the sand brings back smell of war Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,...