NATIONAL INTEREST

Me, Myself And Mining

If you dozed off while being driven through the city of Bangalore, you could end up thinking you were in...

With all due respect

Four recent developments deserve close attention. These could add up to a very disturbing picture: of our higher judiciary being...

1984, One Lesson

In a season when some of the late Rajiv Gandhi’s own political legatees are busy besmirching his name, post the...

New Mandate, New Limits

Why were we all so outraged at Musharraf’s infamous breakfast for senior editors at Agra during the summit in 2001?...

First Slip, Then Cover-Up

In the continuing season of cover-ups in Indian cricket, its establishment has worked single-mindedly over the past fortnight to suggest...

Racket Before Wicket

You can’t keep cricket out of any discussion on India, even a heavy-duty academic conference that Brown University organised last...

IPL baby, IPL bathwater

Responding to the charge last year that the BCCI was forced to pull IPL out of India to South Africa...

Thank god they fought

At a time when the dominant sentiment on the IPL was breathless adulation, following its success” in South Africa, this...

The Buck Starts Here

On the Republic Day of 1995, terrorists set off an IED right next to the podium where General K.V. Krishna...

Hype And Hyphen

The US-Pakistan strategic dialogue in Washington marks the formal beginning of the endgame on the Afghan war. The Americans are...

Our Hockey High

Let me begin by asking you a simple question. And if you cannot answer even this one, you can ask...

Them and Us

There was nothing un-Holbrooke-like about his utterly insensitive statement that the Kabul attack had not particularly targeted Indians. The use...