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Confident That NSA For MP Cow Slaughter Will Be Lifted
Former Union home and finance minister P. Chidambaram is busy putting together the Congress manifesto before the forthcoming general elections. His book Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India (Rupa), a collection of his articles published in The Indian Express in 2018 is just out. Chidambaram talks to Satish Padmanabhan on a range of topics from the Pulwama terror attack, the grand opposition alliance to Rafale deal and cow vigilantes. Excerpts…
President Provocateur
India will have to look out for what becomes of Trump’s rhetoric in the White House.
Indo-Pak Talks: So Where Were We?
After what seemed like an intractable chill, India and Pak get to the talks-table again.
Starry-Eyed At The House Of Reels
The big screen. Up there dreams are built and spilt, lives are lived, loved and lost and all of us are along for the ride.
Pathankot Attack: Would The Army Have Handled It Better?
Did the NSA’s ‘civilian’ NSG botch up the Pathankot operation? Would the army have handled it better? With the NSG out of its depth, the army was called in to deliver the final punch.
Kitchen Confidential: Five Star Experience At Home
Bring the five-star experience home. Gourmet savants are now bringing their business to the family kitchen.
Koramangala: The Startup Universe
Bandra of Bangalore, GK-I of Delhi, that’s Koramangala. This is startup universe, the hub of ideas, inspiration and all the action.
A Clowning Glory: An Alternative Healing Method
A few doctors are bringing an alternative healing method to town.
Feel the Bern Yet?
In Donald Trump season, here comes a wildcard: a plodding, avowed socialist!
Narendra Modi, Stuck In Abraham's Triangle!
Modi is caught between a military alliance and crucial oil diplomacy in West Asia.
Arvind Kejriwal's Jack-In-The-Box Street Cred Intact, A Year Down
A year down, a battle-scarred Arvind Kejriwal survives, with his jack-in-the-box street cred intact.
Divide And Rue
The mob is suddenly everywhere: not just on the streets, but on the TV, in our minds. Is this a rebirth of the nation, or is something going horribly wrong?
Divided They Pinprick
The BJP ought to be pinned down to the ground. Yet the Opposition watches, and waits
His Other Chariot Is An Alpha Romeo 8C
Classic motors are a sight to behold, and more Indians are in their hopeless thrall than ever
Can Modi Sarkar Pass The Great Urban IQ Test?
It began with a scintillating vision—urban utopias going by the spiffy name ‘Smart Cities’. But is the focus all wrong? Is the model elitist? Many questions abound.
Vijay Mallya- Politicians Who Backed Him
Mallya cadged loans and hedged around law with help from politicians.
Ghosts In Bengal Have New Admirers Now
Ghosts in Bengal were literary or underground. They’ve new admirers now.
Is The Congress, BJP Without The Lotus?
Is the Congress nothing but the BJP without the Lotus? Despite holding the secular of saffron banner, time and again it has faced the soft Hindutva charge. Such as now.
Four Shades Of Irony, One Of Fury
The Purusha Sukta glibly drops the four varnas on Hindus. Lit by a holy rage and unwavering in scholarship, Ambedkar exploded the very purity of the chaturvarna.
The Classic Caste Confrontation Over Water
It was the classic caste confrontation—over water. Eighty-nine years ago, Ambedkar led a group of Dalits to drink water from this lake in Mahad.
No Thing As Geneteic Merit
Sangh arguments for only economic quota are specious. Actually, the private sector must pass on its privileges.
Where Crackdowns Are As Common As The Azadi Chant!
Where crackdowns are as common as the azadi chant, what is different about police action at NIT Srinagar?
Why The World's Biggest Movie Star Can't Speak On Indo-Pak Peace?
It's a shame that a superstar can't talk of Indo-Pak peace
From China, With Love
Chinese smartphones offering the price-conscious India a fascinating new range of products right now
Cures That Make A Big Killing
People exploded in anger at Bengal’s notoriously coercive hospitals. Now, a new law will take them on.
The Valley's New Curriculum
Girl students pelting stones at the police in the heart of Srinagar marks a shift in the Kashmir unrest’s visual profile
Is There A Future For AAP?
AAP was not just another party. It came not as a regional force or a lobby—it deigned to be a universal alternative to everything. If the promise is fading, it must examine the mirror, not just the EVM.
Stone Tools In Modern History
There is now a problem bigger than militants on India’s hands: protests beyond the separatists’ control
Kashmir On The Brink, But Nowhere To Go
As ordinary Kashmiris take over the fight on angry streets, Pakistan sits back and fine-tunes its new policy
Fraud Of The Fairness Dream
In a country not comfortable with its own genes, fairness creams sell a lie to pander to a deep-seated self-loathing