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The conceit of the anti-democrat

Those who do not subscribe to the elite narrative on corruption are considered politically backward and their democratic choices unworthy of respect »      44 comments

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 »      15 comments
Despite spending nearly Rs. 270 crore on farm equipment, a temporary shortage in working capital has meant that most of Karuturi's tractors are sitting idle. Photo: Aman Sethi
The Sunday Story

When the levee breaks

Last August, Ojulu sat smoking a cigarette outside his thatch-roofed hut in Pino village when a rising tide of water seeped through the reed fence. “The water came in the morning,” Ojulu said, “An... »      4 comments

Time to put garbage on the table

With no long-term planning and policy reforms, the country’s burgeoning waste management problem is set to become a health and environmental crisis »      12 comments

Wanted, an Afghan statesman

With prospects for peace in Afghanistan and the region at stake, Hamid Karzai needs to end the uncertainties surrounding next year’s presidential election »      7 comments
RECENT OPINION LEADERS
May 16, 2013

A to-do list for the new Law Minister

With only a year to go before the Lok Sabha elections, the new Law Minister has his work cut out for him. On paper, Kapil Sibal is perhaps the United Progressive Alliance’s best man for the job. A... »      18 comments
May 14, 2013

India’s defence needs FDI

Last Friday, the Ministry of Defence took yet another step to signal that it is serious about turning around the pathetic state of India’s defence industry. It did so by requesting proposals from... »      33 comments
The WHO Global Atlas of Health Workforce advocates the critical threshold of 23 doctors, nurses and midwives per 10,000 populations and identifies 57 countries, including India, as facing a crisis. File Photo: K. Gopinathan
May 12, 2013
MEDICAL COLLEGE ADMISSIONS

Frontiers without doctors

India has achieved major organisational and technological successes but the health system’s performance is abysmal. This cannot be attributed to poverty. It is poor health that places India 134th... »      7 comments
May 10, 2013

France confronts its famous malaise

A year ago, there was a sense of euphoria in France. Francois Hollande had just swept Nicolas Sarkozy and his Conservatives out of power, and the Socialists were jubilant over a hard-won victory f... »      4 comments
May 8, 2013

When development triggers caste violence

On the evening of November 7, 2012, a crowd numbering over 1000 people burst into three Dalit settlements in Dharmapuri, north-western Tamil Nadu, and laid them waste. Over a period of several hou... »      18 comments
May 6, 2013

Between life and death, the crucial difference

The Supreme Court, in the course of just one month, has rendered two judgments that appear to be contradictory. As both the judgments have been rendered by the same Bench, comprising two judges, t... »      5 comments
May 4, 2013

Weapon that has more than symbolic value

Since India became a declared nuclear weapon state in May 1998, there has been a concerted campaign, particularly by non-proliferation lobbies in western countries, echoed by analysts in China and... »      21 comments
May 2, 2013

An ecosystem to save, or squander

This is a challenging time in India’s development history where a number of tenets of environmental governance are being questioned by the imperative of growth. Environmental governance in India i... »      11 comments
May 15, 2013

Two neighbours, and dealing with them

When I worked in the Prime Minister’s Office of Indira Gandhi from 1981 to 1984, she told me that she could visualise a time in the future when India and Pakistan would have normal, even friendly,... »      14 comments
May 13, 2013

Fomenting hemispheric hostility

Wrapping up a lightning tour of Latin America — the first of his second term and his sixth overall — United States President Barack Obama this week summed up his views on the hemisphere in fond re... »      7 comments
May 11, 2013

Minorities in a Naya Pakistan

Naya Pakistan is the new buzzword in the country. It is the campaign slogan of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, and it speaks to those who are seeking not only a new leadership but also new... »      9 comments
May 9, 2013

Beware the lemming impulse

Israel and the West are on the brink of making a suicidal mistake in Syria, and only one man can prevent it. That man is the United States President, Barack Obama. As recent reports in the New... »      13 comments
May 7, 2013
STATECRAFT

The false allure of liberating CBI

As a nation we remain self-absorbed in our own hypocrisies. And perhaps there is no greater misconceived a hypocrisy than the notion that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should be — and,... »      68 comments
The domestic manufacturers of solar equipment are livid at the government’s failure to protect the interests of the solar industry from cheap imports.
May 5, 2013
Tapping solar energy

Sunny future

Solar is the most secure of all energy sources, since it is abundantly available in India. With crippling electricity shortages, the price of electricity traded internally touched Rs. 7 a unit for... »      20 comments
May 3, 2013

America’s politics of convenience

After the Boston Marathon bombers struck on April 15, killing four in their wake and injuring 264, the initial caution about ethno-religious stereotyping of “Islamic extremists” appears to have gi... »      27 comments