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Editorial
May 26, 2012

Good Act, bad provision

The obvious, first. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, recently passed by both Houses of Parliament, must be wholeheartedly welcomed for filling a glaring lacuna in the law... »

Editorial
May 26, 2012

Netanyahu gets it all

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's deal whereby the centrist opposition Kadima Party has joined his Likud-led coalition government may be one of the most adept pieces of realpolitik by an... »
Op-Ed
Home buyers, affected by the court''s decision on land acquisition in Noida Extension, take out a peace march in Noida in July, 2011. File photo

Owner's nightmare, realtor's fantasy

It has taken more than 110 years for the government to draft a new Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill. But despite mounting evidence of widespread misuse of government authorit... »
PUSHING REFORMS: President Patil has used her office to advance causes of profound concern to her — critically, the rights of women and alleviating the agrarian crisis. Photo Courtesy: Rashtrapati Bhavan

The quiet legacy of President Pratibha Patil

“My image of a President before I came here,” President K.R. Narayanan said in a rare televised interview with N. Ram in 1998, “was that of a rubber-stamp President, to be frank.” “But having come... »
SINGULAR FOCUS: Using a handful of birds, the Siberian Crane Memorandum aims to build awareness of a dwindling species that is facing the tragic risk of being forgotten. Photo: Special Arrangement

The power of one

A slew of conservation agreements that India has signed with other countries puts the individual animal at the heart of efforts to protect locally endangered species In 2010, a Memorandum... »
Corporation officials taking the Socio Economic and Caste census in Chennai. Photo: K. Pichumani

Caste and the count

Various ambitious castes quickly perceived the chances of raising their status. They invited conferences of their members, and formed councils to take steps to see that their status was recorded... »
COLUMNS
Actor Aamir Khan.

Aamir Khan

The Aamir Khan Column: It's your entire life — not just an event

Let's give marriage the importance it deserves — in every sense, financial, emotional, mental. »
Taking the plunge: Wishes fulfilled? AFP PHOTO

Kalpana Sharma

The other half : Unequal unions

Why should women obliterate their personalities, their lives, once they get married? »
LETTERS
May 26, 2012

Politics and petrol

The editorial “Poor petropolitics” (May 25) was a good review of the total mismanagement of the oil economy by the UPA government. Of course, it has been guided by political expediency rather than... »
May 26, 2012

Crony league?

This refers to Ramachandra Guha's article “Smash-and-grab crony league” (May 25). Mr. Guha starts with the damage the IPL is purportedly causing to the game of cricket, moves away to talk about cr... »
May 25, 2012

Rebuttal

This is with response to the reply by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, and Mr. P. Sainath's response (May 24). Dr. Ahluwalia's response to the Sainath article was reveal... »
May 26, 2012

Madam President

The conversation with President Pratibha Patil (May 25) was interesting. The Hindu is the only media outlet that has attempted to explore the quiet legacy of the President. Women's empowerm... »
May 25, 2012

Third year ‘gift'

The Central government is in the “habit” of passing on the burden of its own making to the common man who is already struggling with inflation and other blows in the form of high costs of essentia... »
May 25, 2012

UPA 2 at 3

The editorial “Words no longer count” (May 24) is an excellent and critical review of the UPA government's performance. There is no doubt that the 2G scam has cast its huge shadow and overshadowed... »
INTERVIEW
PUSHING REFORMS: President Patil has used her office to advance causes of profound concern to her — critically, the rights of women and alleviating the agrarian crisis. Photo Courtesy: Rashtrapati Bhavan
May 25, 2012

The quiet legacy of President Pratibha Patil

“My image of a President before I came here,” President K.R. Narayanan said in a rare televised interview with N. Ram in 1998, “was that of a rubber-stamp President, to be frank.” “But having come... »
HIGH NOTE: The group performing at the Press Club of India, New Delhi, last month. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
May 19, 2012

Laal sings a neighbour's blues

Back in 2007, when lawyers in Pakistan were out on the streets, protesting the sacking of the Chief Justice of Pakistan by their military dictatorship, a short and well-produced music video, fe... »
Nikki Randhawa Haley, Governor of South Carolina
May 24, 2012

'I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants'

Nikki Randhawa Haley became the Governor of South Carolina in November 2010, and is the first ever Indian-American woman to occupy the top job in a U.S. state. At 38 years of age,... »
MOHAMED NASHEED: ‘The point is, liberal democracy depends on everyone playing by the rules — which our opponents have not done.’
April 20, 2012

India did not understand the seriousness of events in the Maldives, says Nasheed

Ever since the February 6 coup which overthrew Mohamed Nasheed's government, the ousted Maldives President has been visiting world capitals, seeking greater international effort to ensur... »
OPEN PAGE
May 19, 2012

Dear patient, know your visitor

It is not the pain of the disease or the drastic weight loss of the wallet that worries a patient the most. It is indeed the behaviour of some of the people who visit that the patient dreads to the... »
May 19, 2012

The noise called ringtone

Having been diagnosed as almost deaf in one ear and driving through traffic chaos, the least I could expect was to be confronted by police with a challan for “mobile driving,” a term that means usi... »
A file photo of Air Marshal K.C. Cariappa with the portrait of his father and Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa at Madikeri in Karnataka. Photo: Special Arrangement
May 19, 2012

Trust our Generals, they are patriots

General V. K. Singh's letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh revealing the critical condition of the military apparatus has created a scare about the nation's security. Its leakage is unacceptable... »
May 19, 2012

Child eyes man, elders pine for youth!

Finally, it happened. I was in Standard VI. In the classroom, the blackboard looked hazy. I was unable to make out what the teacher wrote. I came home and announced, with dignity and pride, that I... »