Six years after India first won the cricket World Cup in 1983, the sociologist Ashis Nandy famously wrote, “Cricket is an Indian game, accidentally invented by…
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The last time the British and French indulged together in a military adventure in the Middle East, they were humiliated and their noses rubbed in the…
It is in the nature of Opposition parties to be agitational, to be constantly in campaign mode. The pursuit of power demands it but there is…
At a time when the Army is being accused of a gender bias in denying permanent commissions to women officers, two stories have symbolised the debate…
What does our current telecom muddle have in common with the US railroad industry? Much like the Indian phone industry in the past two decades, American…
The Supreme Court’s direction to the CBI to treat the big fish among the corporate beneficiaries of the telecom scandal exactly the same as the nameless…
With Hosni Mubarak still trying desperately to somehow hang on to the last dregs of power, the quote of the week comes from the Egyptian novelist…
Writing on corruption and probity in public life, ancient political theorist Chanakya started with a slightly banal observation in the Arthashastra: “Just as a fish moving…
In March 1938, when confronted with rising reports of corruption in the Congress provincial ministries that had come into being a year earlier under the Government…
Beijing passed a message last week when it tested the J-20, its new generation locally produced stealth fighter, from an airbase in Sichuan on the day…
