Postcard from the edge—of irrelevance Is this China? Can this be Chinese territory? Is this one more example of the...
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19.052001November 17, 2015
Stars and gripes
Harvard diary: flavours of the exam season Anybody who said the Indian examination system is oppressive had better come to...
28.042001July 29, 2015
Kalam’s banana republic
Wrap science in the tricolour and you legitimise mediocrity To be fair to Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, it is possible...
20.012001July 27, 2015
Our hell on wheels
You don’t need Stephen Hawking’s intellect to figure out the many awful things that could have happened to him if...
13.012001July 27, 2015
Chinese checkers
Li Peng should consider himself lucky he had only the customary Tibetan protestors to greet him on arrival. This time,...
19.082000November 17, 2015
The Punjab parable
In so many years of making a living covering troubled zones there were at least two occasions I was convinced...
05.082000July 27, 2015
To Kashmir, via the world
The Uttar Pradesh Tourism Department has lately been aggressive in advertising the Taj Mahal. But, if you look closely at...
29.072000July 27, 2015
The wisdom of fools
If only the Congress party was half as smart as some of its opponents are stupid, it wouldn’t have been...
22.072000July 27, 2015
The shame game
Of all sports, cricket has the most special quality to inspire superior prose. At Portsmouth yesterday, it was Rahul Dravid...
15.072000July 27, 2015
Generally speaking
Thanks to the Jang group of newspapers in Pakistan, which also publishes The News which was at such odds with...
08.072000July 27, 2015
Tigers and the Taj
Years after the conservative English columnist Bernard Levin had got us so outraged we have now provided evidence — with...
01.072000July 27, 2015
Azaadi to autonomy
For once Kashmir is in the national headlines for reasons other than the daily business of violence and killings. The...