Infallible Indian journalists have been spooked by a delightful Da Vinci Code style hoax played on them. On Sunday, almost every newspaper reported the arrest of Johann Bach, an 88-year-old …
In this coalition era, it’s best to amend your symbol. E.P. Unny in The Indian Express
The sky-rocketing price of crude oil sparking increases in fuel prices back home is a complex economic issue. Some blame rising demand in India and China; many blame speculators. As …
Do Indians in America all vote for the Democratic Party? Will they all do so only if an Indian politician they trust certifies the candidates? And only if the politician …
M.J. Akbar, who the grapevine says was ousted from the editorship of The Asian Age due to his staunch opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal, goes for the jugular in …
All’s well that ends well for a leopard that had fallen into a well near Linganayakwada near Karwar on Saturday. The cat was rescued and released into the forests. Photographs: …
The passing away of the only Indian to be appointed Field Marshal when in active service has been remarkable for the warmth of the ordinary men and women who queued …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: The murder of Aarushi Talwar and the man-servant in the Talwar household, Hemaraj, has been an extraordinary episode in Indian criminal history. A month …
Ashis Nandy, facing criminal charges for a think-piece he wrote in The Times of India on Gujaratis after the victory of Narendra Modi, tears into non-resident Indians and their support …
CHETAN KRISHNASWAMY three very fine examples of public service advertising. Against overspeeding, for saving the girl-child, and against chewing tobacco.
The dictionary defines “atrocity” as “the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane”. If that is an acceptable definition, what constitutes an “atrocity” against the scheduled castes and tribes? Is …
The decision of the Congress-led Jammu & Kashmir government of Ghulam Nabi Azad to assign 39.88 hectares (approximately 100 acres) of degraded forest land to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board …
Jaithirth Rao in The Indian Express: “Oil has been at best a mixed blessing for its possessors. Consider Venezuela, once a shining democracy true to Betancourt’s legacy, an economy on …
News has not been in short supply in the global village in the satellite age. There are the “Indian” English news channels: NDTV 24×7, CNN-IBN, Times Now, Headlines Today. And …
Andre Beteille, professor emeritus of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, in The Telegraph: “Politics in India is coming to be driven increasingly by the competition for backwardness. The …
R. Ramaswamy Iyengar in a letter to the editor of Praja Vani: “Some 58 years ago, N. Keshava Iyengar was the mayor of the Bangalore City Corporation. A staunch Congressman …
churumuri records with regret the demise of George Carlin, the irreverent, anti-establishment, gold standard for standup comedians, in Santa Monica, California, on Sunday. He was 71. [odeo=http://odeo.com/show/9956813/] Also read: George …
Sudheendra Kulkarni in The Indian Express: “Several decades from now, history will remember Atal Behari Vajpayee as the prime minister who took the bull by the horns and announced India’s …
SREEKANTH V. NAIR catches a theyyam artist in Uduma, in Kasargod district, doing a vanity-check.
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: Over the years, Indians have yearned for lots of things American. Everything from American money to American education to American movies and sitcoms and not …
Twenty-five years ago—a quarter of a century ago!—India won the World Cup of cricket. It all seems like a millennium ago, and it is. The matches were 60 overs a …
Amitav Ghosh, author of the newly released Sea of Poppies, in an interview with Amrita Tripathi of CNN-IBN: “The age of imperialism is not over. It’s actually now starting all …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Indra jumped off his simhasana as if struck by a million volts. He had just been told that somebody in the southern Indian state of Karnataka was …
M.J. Akbar in the Khaleej Times, Dubai: “No Government of India has been as minimalist as the UPA regime. For over four years now it has survived on a simple …