World

You Might Be Dangerous

Kalpish Ratna

Shoot on sight, and don’t think twice. That seems to be the credo of the Italians on board the Enrica Lexie, unchanged since the European intrusion into our waters in 1498

How Georgia Did It

Samantha de Bendern

Eight years ago, faced with rampant corruption, Georgia took a series of drastic steps, among them the overnight sacking of the entire police force. Did it work?

Mitt Romney, a Man for All Seasons. Or Not

Ranbir Sidhu

Obama’s most likely Republican challenger is just a little too perfect and a little too rich

What’s Brewing in Pakistan?

Marvi Sirmed

No coup, but covert control by the army and elections by the end of 2012 perhaps

Too Smart for Europe

Jatin Gandhi

How Germany sees the Eurozone crisis. And why others demur

On a Wing and a Whim

Hartosh Singh Bal

Aboard the Rs 250 crore corporate jet that Mukesh Ambani and Vijay Mallya own

For a Greater Say at the IMF

Shailendra Tyagi

BRIC countries have agreed to provide the Fund with money to bail out Europe’s crisis-ridden economies. Here is why

End of the Double-digit Dream

Alam Srinivas

India’s GDP growth target for the 12th Plan period is just 9 per cent annually, a tad lower than the double-digit bluster earlier

1 Israeli for 1,027 Palestinians

Aimee Ginsburg

The story of a war-torn world where that seems a fair exchange to both sides

The American Autumn

Shougat Dasgupta

The wave of protests in American cities has been variously panned as leaderless, rudderless, purposeless... but perhaps America is rediscovering the messy nature of democracy