The world’s worst-performing Olympic country?
With the Olympic Games in Beijing scheduled to begin at 8 am on the 8th day of the 8th year, Foreign Policy magazine lists the “The World’s Worst Olympians“. On top …
With the Olympic Games in Beijing scheduled to begin at 8 am on the 8th day of the 8th year, Foreign Policy magazine lists the “The World’s Worst Olympians“. On top …
Caught in the cross-fire in the cash-for-votes scandal that rocked the trust motion in Parliament on July 22, Rajdeep Sardesai, editor-in-chief of CNN-IBN, has issued a statement on the channel’s purported …
ASHVINI A. writes from Bangalore: The Bangalore edition of The Hindu has a piece today on the second unit of the Global Education Centre coming up on the Mysore campus …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The one crore rupees that were tabled in the Lok Sabha —the sanctum sanctorum of our democracy—has naturally created tremors across the world. “Whodunit?” is the question newspapers …
If the grisly sight of bombs tearing off lives and limbs in Ahmedabad and Bangalore doesn’t get your stomach churning, the conspiracy theorising by our political parties should. Sushma Swaraj, …
At a little past 11.30 pm last Saturday, an SMS came from Sudheendra Murali, a friend in Bangalore: “Kargil Forgotten.” To a South Indian with not a single member of the …
Each time they open their mouth, Indian politicians try to show how much they are in contact with the aam admi and aam aurat. On election tours, they hop off …
VINUTHA MALLYA writes: After the ‘blasted’ weekend in Bangalore and Ahmedabad, electricity transformers, unmanned bicycles and parked cars are drawing suspicious looks… until the ‘Indian Mujahideen’ invents its next bomb. …
M.J. Akbar, the former Asian Age editor widely believed to have lost his job due to his opposition to the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, continues with his relentless assault on …
An astonishing aspect of the current political atmosphere is the complete lack of accountability—or demands for it. Heads are demanded and heads roll when a politician is caught in some …
BHAMY V. SHENOY writes: The attacks on two cities, Bangalore and Ahmedabad, in the space of two days, July 25 and July 26, is comparable to 9/11, if not in scale, …
Generally speaking, public service initiatives are grim, boring affairs. But the “Teach India” campaign launched by The Times of India in collaboration with United Nations Volunteers—and modelled along the lines of the Teach …
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: Another set of serial blasts in an Indian city. Ho hum. Shrill and breathless reporters causing panic and confusion while telling people that there is …
Writer and lyricist Jayant Kaikini in Deccan Herald: “I am angry at the way the electronic media is making use of the incident and hyping it with a view on TRPs. …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Terror struck the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11 and a few other places same day. That was in 2001, seven years ago. A couple …
Thirty-two months after an Indian Institute of Technology professor was killed on the campus of the Indian Institute of Science, “terror” returned to the pensioners’ paradise that no longer is, …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: It was a day like any other and I was going through my daily routine of halting at every traffic light as is usual at the …
RAVEESH KUMAR writes from Bangalore: Can Kannada cinema be the ambassador for Kannada language? This question has been in my mind for some time now although there have been lots of …
The spectre of Barack Obama hangs heavy over young Indian politicians. Can they talk as well? Can they be as spontaneous? Can they inspire as many? Can they strike a …
Tuesday’s disgraceful scenes in the Lok Sabha—when three BJP MPs heaped currency notes of nearly Rs 1 crore to show that they were being bribed to abstain from the trust …
1) Before the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement (not “deal”, as Pranab Mukherjee pointed out) lights up a single 60-watt bulb, it has caused a tectonic change in our politics. There …
The Leader of Opposition, L.K. Advani has chosen to use all manner of abusive objectives to describe my performance. He has described me as the weakest Prime Minister, a nikamma …
Towards draw of stumps on day one, Team Manmohan looks like it might score 271 in 20 hours. Or it might not. But sometime in the year 2025, seventeen years …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN scoops the programming highlights of the Lok Sabha channel for Tuesday, 22 July 2008: *** Highlights for 22 July 2008 0000 Movie: Dealwale dulhaniya le jayange (continued) 0130 Midnight Masala …
M.J. Akbar in Khaleej Times: “Dr Manmohan Singh can now be held responsible for both economic and political inflation, a rare achievement…. “There is already an SMS doing the rounds …