The Rahul-led Congress has been on a rollercoaster that could disorient anybody else. The young leader, however, retains his smile.
30 December 2009Netas will pass the buck, trot out excuses and do the usual neta things, but food prices are not coming down in a hurry.
23 December 2009The effort to enforce accountability upon India’s Judiciary is in danger of stalling. A look at what’s taking so awfully long.
09 December 2009How work, leisure and aliens called Nofs get in the way of a cyberfarmer devoted to his land.
02 December 2009It’s been an agri annus horribilis. The crops spared by drought were hit by floods. And now food prices are headed skywards.
22 October 2009Remember when Haryana politics was about the many shades of Lal—Devi, Bansi, Bhajan? Now, the sons are trying to ride piggyback on their fathers’ fame, but they are unlikely to find much joy in this election.
30 September 2009Home Minister Chidambaram’s red card on arbitrary transfers of police officers.
17 September 2009The party that Lal Krishna Advani built so dedicatedly for so long has started coming apart and the ‘iron man’ is still at the centre of it all, whether partymen and the RSS want him there or not
27 August 2009India faces a drought unprecedented in scale and impact. A crisis that will test the government’s aam aadmi agenda to the limit.
19 August 2009Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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