How can an Italian court murder Indian democracy?
The ancients knew their metaphors. They classified the state of a human mind into four categories, or 'humours', based on bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, melancholy and choler [or bile].
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Gandhi, Chakrayya and Ambedkar
In May 1947, Mahatma Gandhi suffered a grievous personal loss. Chakrayya, a young Dalit disciple who had served at Sevagram Ashram since its inception in 1935, died of brain tumour. He was like family; the Mahatma's grief was palpable and public.
16 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The way dynasties end
Success measures capability; a crisis tests an individual's or institution's maturity and resilience. Congress was hit by an explosion in
2 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The ears of Astronomy
As an enquiry, science has generally left me perplexed. During first encounters in school, physics was a bit of blank and chemistry
13 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Congress pays heavy price for GST obduracy
One can hear the silence and visualise jaw-drops in the Congress High Command drawing room at the results of a just released ABP News-Nielsen survey of the national mood. The figures speak for themselves.
30 January 2016, 18:00 PM
At odds with ends
A curious role reversal seized Parliament for much of last year, resulting in apoplectic fits that bode ill for the health of the institution.
2 January 2016, 18:00 PM
A cloudburst out of thin air
DELHI Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's outburst against the Union government after the CBI raided the offices of a member of his
19 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Bluff is not course correction
The bizarre is not as distant from our political discourse as we might wish it to be. There are times, however, when a
12 December 2015, 18:00 PM
How can an Italian court murder Indian democracy?
The ancients knew their metaphors. They classified the state of a human mind into four categories, or 'humours', based on bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, melancholy and choler [or bile].
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Gandhi, Chakrayya and Ambedkar
In May 1947, Mahatma Gandhi suffered a grievous personal loss. Chakrayya, a young Dalit disciple who had served at Sevagram Ashram since its inception in 1935, died of brain tumour. He was like family; the Mahatma's grief was palpable and public.
16 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The way dynasties end
Success measures capability; a crisis tests an individual's or institution's maturity and resilience. Congress was hit by an explosion in
2 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The ears of Astronomy
As an enquiry, science has generally left me perplexed. During first encounters in school, physics was a bit of blank and chemistry
13 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Congress pays heavy price for GST obduracy
One can hear the silence and visualise jaw-drops in the Congress High Command drawing room at the results of a just released ABP News-Nielsen survey of the national mood. The figures speak for themselves.
30 January 2016, 18:00 PM
At odds with ends
A curious role reversal seized Parliament for much of last year, resulting in apoplectic fits that bode ill for the health of the institution.
2 January 2016, 18:00 PM
A cloudburst out of thin air
DELHI Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's outburst against the Union government after the CBI raided the offices of a member of his
19 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Bluff is not course correction
The bizarre is not as distant from our political discourse as we might wish it to be. There are times, however, when a
12 December 2015, 18:00 PM
The deadly game of alibis
The terrorist assault on cities began in Mumbai: not Mumbai 2008, but Mumbai 1993. A series of coordinated bomb blasts in February
14 November 2015, 18:00 PM
THE FOG OF OPINION POLLS
Perhaps Congress leaders think that things cannot get any worse after the nadir of 2014. Maybe they should think again. The reason is clear. Congress political tactics this year have floated out of the range of common sense.
8 November 2015, 18:00 PM
If Left doesn't do God, it should try Godfather
Parties, like individuals, can become bed-ridden for many reasons; many have died an early death because of irrelevance. When an obituary of the Indian Left is written, it will be said that it died of complacency. It was not homicide, really. It was suicide.
4 October 2015, 18:00 PM
HELL ON EARTH
When dust makes a story, there will be dust storms in the air. It is easy enough to blame media, but the media will travel only so far as public interest takes it. If there were no readers, there would be no story.
30 August 2015, 18:00 PM
An anxious swivel-point in India-Pak ties
There is some confusion over the precise meaning of “talks” in the context of India and Pakistan. Both sides are committed to what is known as a “composite” dialogue, and this indeed covers all issues, including Kashmir.
23 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Poison on menu at wedding feast
Marriage, noted George Bernard Shaw, the finest playwright in English since Shakespeare, is an institution that thrives because there are
13 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Why Bangladesh isn't Pakistan
This week we can bury a misconception that has appropriated the subcontinent's discourse since 1947, when a Muslim League-British project partitioned the land in the name of religion.
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
A lion in the room
Political literacy can be determined by a simple measure; whether your mind is open or closed.
10 May 2015, 18:00 PM
A premature Prize that has matured
One of the minor mysteries of this teenage century is how a toddler American President managed to win the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2008 after just weeks in office.
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM
A searchlight for a spotlight
WE shall know soon enough which is the champion nation of contemporary one-day cricket.
22 March 2015, 18:00 PM
America, Iran and Iraq: Partners,not friends
STABILITY is an illusion that nations advertise to comfort citizens.
19 March 2015, 18:00 PM