A handshake across the Himalayas
China and India are destined to be together. They should work hand in hand if Asia is to become the anchor of world peace
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May 20, 2013
Fast-track terror cases
Released on bail last week by a special National Investigation Agency court, former militant Liyaqat Shah will thank his stars for having escaped a much worse fate. With a history of training and...
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May 20, 2013
Hampi’s past awaits a future
There is hardly any archaeological site in this country that is as rich in history, vast in expanse, spectacular in sight and complex in nature as Hampi. Conserving this medieval city, integrating...
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How the world looks from India
The Government of India may have rolled out the red carpet for Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who arrived in New Delhi yesterday, but popular opinion in India is deeply sceptical of Chinese ambitions...
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In Mali, Indian-owned mine caught in land dispute
Syed Masoom Ali stood in a clearing on the outskirts of Bamako, the capital of Mali, gestured towards the low-slung hills around him, and thought of home.“It is a good deposit, the ore is c...
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The crude reality of oil prices
The bankers have finally got their revenge. Oil traders claim that influential bankers, furious that that their sector has been squeezed by regulators since the 2008 crash, have persuaded Brussels...
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Shocking betrayal on Western Ghats
Dear Dr. K. Kasturirangan,J.B.S. Haldane, the celebrated 19th-century scientist and humanist who quit England protesting its imperialistic invasion of Suez to become an Indian citizen...
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Telling the untold: let caution be the byword
Ted Corbett
England cannot ignore Pietersen
A few months ago if I had started my column with the declaration that “the return of Kevin Pietersen will bring nothing but embarrassment to the England selectors” you might have, quite reasonably...
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May 20, 2013
State of cricket
BCCI president N. Srinivasan, who also runs a company that owns an IPL team, has said the Board will follow the rulebook before handing down punishment to S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and A...
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May 18, 2013
IPL in a spot
I am one of those millions of Indians who love cricket and who even played some club and office-level tournaments out of sheer love for the game. But the latest scandal proved to be the last nail...
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May 18, 2013
Saving a temple
This refers to a report from Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, titled “1000-year-old Chola era temple facing threat of demolition” (May 17). During the construction of the Aswan dam, monuments like the Sphi...
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May 20, 2013
Waste management
By talking about waste management, we are looking at a cure for the disease, not its causes (“»
May 18, 2013
On Afghanistan
India must develop at least a working relationship with future power centres that will be formed in Afghanistan to ensure that its projects are unaffected during the transition (editorial page, Ma...
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May 17, 2013
Modi’s U-turn
This refers to the editorial, “Right decision, wrong reason” (May 16), on the Narendra Modi government’s decision to put on hold the death sentence for the former Minister Mayaben Kodnani and Bajr...
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May 14, 2013
‘We have a lot of love for India’
In an interview to Karan Thapar days before the elections in Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, who is poised to become the Prime Minister after his party’s victory, spoke on a range of issu...
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April 27, 2013
Nepal's development requires cooperation from India, China
May 1, 2013
‘Scientists downplay earthquake risks’
Two destructive earthquakes within a week of each other, the first with a 7.5 magnitude on the Iran-Pakistan border, on April 16, and the second measuring 5.6 in eastern Afghanistan last Wednes...
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May 19, 2013
Faith is alive
Whoever said Faith is dead? That religion has become obsolete? Faith is still alive and kicking. It’s only that its address has changed. It has a new portal. In fact, man cannot live without some k...
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May 19, 2013
Not cricket, certainly
This circus has always had the ‘spot’lightWith cricket being played so late in the nightTricks of the trade performed in the ringPuppets on an invisible pulling stringCh...
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May 19, 2013
Medicine-bashing is too much with us
Fluency, felicity and flamboyance in language do not always fit in with finer analysis of facts or rigour. When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney went looking for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in...
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May 19, 2013
The man whom I remember in May
I remember him every day of my life. I especially remember him this time of the month because Abe Rosenthal died in May. I miss him deeply – because I’m marking a big birthday today. Abe Ros...
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How the world looks from India
When the levee breaks
Shocking betrayal on Western Ghats
In Mali, Indian-owned mine caught in land dispute
Our human rights deserve better
A handshake across the Himalayas
Puns intended
The crude reality of oil prices
Shamnad Basheer responds
Hampi’s past awaits a future
EPOCHAL LIFE: A Time Line
A note to readers
Over the past few days, we have received emails, representations and letters objecting to the reference to Swami Vivekananda and the use of his photograph in the article 'Taking the aggression out...
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