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CHURUMURI POLL: Are we safer without Osama?
Osama bin Laden is dead. The founder and leader of Al Qaeda was apparently killed in a “firefight” with American special forces in Abbottabad, 80 miles north of Islamabad in …
What if Indira Gandhi had been shown this pic?
The cover of the 9 August 2010 issue of Time magazine. For a change, all four editions—US, Europe, Asia and South Pacific—have the same cover story. Time‘s choice is doubtless …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is Chidambaram a saboteur?
Of all the millions of words that have been expended since Thursday night to examine and re-examine the collapse of the Indo-Pak talks into a slugfest between the two subcontinental …
Taliban squared + LeT squared > ISI squared
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The telephone rang in the middle of the night. Pythagoras (570-495 BC) woke up with a start but did not know what to do or how to …
Best-dressed man in Indian politics since Nehru?!
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I had the fortune of eating Masale Dose around the same time that he ate his at MTR, except I ate mine at Udupi Krishna Bhavan …
Ten per cent of ten per cent of ten per cent is…
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes from Bombay: I was going to the Mysore Café at King’s Circle in Matunga when I spotted the Ace Political Expert (APE) walking ahead of ahead of …
CHURUMURI POLL: Bombay attack, whodunit?
The terror attack on Bombay has turned into a fullblown war of words between India and Pakistan, on the diplomatic and media fronts. On the one hand, Indian intelligence officials …
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