The art of managing differences
In the forthcoming Strategic Dialogue, India and the U.S. should focus on their long-term interests to take the bilateral relationship forward
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June 20, 2013
Clash of ideas
With a near majority in the Bihar legislature, there was never any doubt that Nitish Kumar would sail through the confidence vote post the Janata Dal (United)’s split with the Bharatiya Janata Par...
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June 20, 2013
Process without promise
There is not much to celebrate in the Taliban’s announcement finally that it is prepared to hold talks with the Afghan government, and plenty to be wary about. The announcement came with the openi...
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There is only one idea, the idea of India
Why did things come to such a pass? Today they [the Bharatiya Janata Party] are sitting in the Opposition, but they have walked out of [the House] after having had their say. I had asked them to l...
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Alok Deshpande’s rejoinder
The Bank of Maharashtra’s (BoM) response is, in a word, entertaining. Even while defending its charge sheet against Mr. Tuljapurkar, the bank was negotiating an agreement with the Union that all p...
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Bank of Maharashtra responds to whistle-blower report
The Bank of Maharashtra’s “comments” on The Hindu’s whistle-blower story of June 13, 2013 (“To fix whistleblower, bank moves from verse to worse” — Page 1 & »
After defeating terror, winning the peace together
On January 23, 2013, in The Hindu (Op-Ed, “United against the terrorist threat”),...
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A.S. PANNEERSELVAN
You are invited
What makes a newspaper different from a consumer product? How does it become a public institution, a common good, and a public sphere despite private ownership of the paper? Though there are no pr...
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Makarand Waingankar
CA’s actions tarnishing Australia’s cricket legacy
The forging of a team is a very painstaking task indeed. Each player’s personality traits have to be accommodated into the larger plan for the team. One would think that Steve Waugh’s diaries whic...
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June 19, 2013
Caste violence
The editorial, “Violence in disguise” (June 18) — on a young caste-Hindu woman from Dharmapuri deserting her Dalit husband under pressure from casteist forces — is a right step towards building pu...
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June 19, 2013
Cabinet reshuffle
UPA II has completed its last reshuffle before the next election. The Congress hopes the latest changes will strengthen its prospects. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken proper care to balanc...
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June 18, 2013
Graded inequalities
Khalid Anis Ansari’s article “Muslims that ‘minority politics’ left behind” (June 17) on pasmanda Muslims and their woes made interesting reading. While the author deserves praise for presenting t...
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June 19, 2013
Sex and marriage
The Madras High Court ruling that an unmarried couple of the right legal age indulging in “sexual gratification” could be termed husband and wife is shocking. Documentary evidence in the form of m...
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June 18, 2013
JD (U)-BJP split
The Janata Dal (United)’s decision to sever ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party and walk out of the National Democratic Alliance is hasty and irrational. The reason given by the JD (U) — the elev...
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June 18, 2013
Kattu kada cut
The announcement that the telegram service is set to close from July 15 has pained me a lot. It is indeed a miracle that the service survived so long, since it was always a foster child. ...
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June 15, 2013
Into a filmmaker’s mind
The role of a film-maker… is that of fulfilling a social responsibility. An artiste enjoys the privilege of being morally connected to society, through his audience. It is like the symbiotic...
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May 30, 2013
‘Treat naxalism as a national problem’
Three days after Maoists ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders in Bastar district, killing 27 people including top leaders of the party in the State, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh...
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June 6, 2013
‘Mafia hold over Italy growing stronger’
On May 28, a high-profile trial opened in the Italian island of Sicily, famous for its organised crime networks. The 10 accused in the box include Salvatore “Toto” Riina, one of the most notori...
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May 29, 2013
Defence production needs FDI
June 16, 2013
Lessons from Brazil’s Zero Hunger
As India’s parliamentarians continue to disrupt Parliament or the so-called “Temple of Democracy”, the much anticipated National Food Security Bill (NFSB) has been put on the back burner. Conseque...
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June 16, 2013
Cheers! Let’s tipple to the end!
Some weeks ago, I was walking back home around 9 in the evening. There is quite a lot of construction work going on near my house and the labourers were settling down for the night. Suddenly, from...
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June 16, 2013
You raise diesel price, they cut bus service, then who will marry Thomas?
Gavi is inside the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala. It is hardly a settlement — two eco-tourism centre buildings and housing for a few workers. The forest department guards the narrow, winding road...
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June 16, 2013
Be warned! It's climate weirding
In an Open Page article (The Hindu, November 25, 2012), I wrote about the looming environmental crisis facing our planet. This article is prompted by my reading of the potent (and depressin...
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Law, sex and dicta
Government in party mode
Not all jugaad is fraud
Building blocks of servitude
When lawyers stay away from courts
In Bangladesh, a year of living dangerously
Monetary policy and rupee volatility
Muslims that 'minority politics' left behind
Cartoonscape, June 19, 2013
Dinesh Thakur responds
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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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