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Karnataka
Karnataka CM Yediyurappa gets another lifeline. But till when?

The Powerpoint Plug
Karnataka
Muck.Gov.Ka
Corruption rules his government more than Yediyurappa his state
Sugata Srinivasaraju

With A Team Like This...

N. Santosh Hegde : 'Every Government Is More Corrupt Than The Last'

A Gold-Laden Ship: All Hands On The Deck!
opinion
Denotifying Morality
Acceptance of corruption is as much to blame as corruption itself
Narendar Pani

National


bihar: elections
Bihar is still Nitish's battle to lose. But post-Ayodhya, the RJD-LJP team is making inroads.
opinion
A Deoband resolution on Kashmir talks sense, dispels stereotypes
opinion
The national habit of muddling through things has potent dangers
Poll Sutra
I'm a sycophant and loyalist—the perfect Congressman who can do U-turns at the drop of a hat


International


diplomacy: east asia
India is set to play the soft balancer between China and East Asia


Business


business: stockmarkets
SEBI is getting active in its role as regulator. Is it doing right?


Society


Tamil nadu: donation
A mystery largesse for a medical college
health: progress
A delayed fight against killer malnutrition
kerala: tea estates
A workers-led tea estate is thriving
ap: education
An excess of engineering colleges, but few students
railways: double decker trains
Indian trains seem set for a makeover
food: Urban farming
City farms are changing the urban landscape and growing food for the home too
photofeature: cwg children
These started months ahead of the "biggest sporting spectacle" in the capital...


Sports


ipl: investigations
Prime offender Lalit Modi plays fugitive as action against IPL's excesses draws first blood


Arts & Entertainment


cinema: small town fests
Now, small towns get a taste of world and regional cinema


Books


review
B.G. Verghese is one of our most feted journalists. He tells the story of independent India as he saw it unfold.
Inder Malhotra on First Draft: Witness To The Making Of Modern India By B.G. Verghese
review
The more we try to approach the person whose name is on the cover, the less we understand of her interior world.




current issue


Oct 25, 2010



Features


Last Page
Delhi Diary
"What is wrong with faith?" an angry gent asked me recently. He was not a knickerwallah but a soft-spoken air force officer...
Vinod Mehta



opinion
Denotifying Morality
Acceptance of corruption is as much to blame as corruption itself
Narendar Pani



opinion
Our Tropical Sickness
The national habit of muddling through things has potent dangers
K. Shankar Bajpai



opinion
School For Moderation
A Deoband resolution on Kashmir talks sense, dispels stereotypes
Neelabh Mishra



photofeature: cwg children
The Other Games
These started months ahead of the "biggest sporting spectacle" in the capital...
Tribhuvan Tiwari



regulars


gossip
Glitterati
The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news



Showtime
Knock Out
A ludicrous thriller which makes you laugh at its stupidities, plotholes and implausibilities.
Namrata Joshi



10 Questions
Bobby Chinn
Chef and host of TLC's premier series World Cafe on his passion for food
Smita Mitra



gossip
Polscape
Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas






Web
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Click to toggle view

From The Blogs
Troubling but not disastrous: 'It was always far-fetched to expect the courts to render justice to anyone—let alone to Indian Muslims'
Sundeep Dougal

Such A Long Journey
Some of the excerpts from the Booker-nominated novel that seem to have first given an opportunity to Aditya Thackeray and now Ashok Chavan to take offence
Rohinton Mistry
Censorship
Recommended reading for Aditya Thackeray 'that would help him make a choice... the Vice-Chancellor, too, may find them beneficial... step back from the abyss, or go over the edge'
Rohinton Mistry
Diplomacy
As I see it, it must be predicated on such a win-win situation where everybody has a stake in furthering the cause of peace and good neighbourly relations.
Nirupama Rao

Friday, October 15, 2010 Click to toggle view



State Snippets
The threat letters to the AIADMK chief which began as a trickle on August 28 have now turned into a flood. Sixteen at the last count. And no one from the DMK is calling it a gimmick...
Pushpa Iyengar
View From Israel
The real Netanyahu must stand up. Hey, wait a minute, I see three of them rising? They are all real, but only one of them is the most real
Uri Avnery


Thursday, October 14, 2010 Click to toggle view



Ayodhya: High Court Decision
The decision is not only momentous; it is equally voluminous: a mammoth 8189 pages. This is only a summary— with no attempt to critique or analyse the decision — so as to further informed debate
Aparna Chandra
Opinion
Many in India continue to believe that America will retain a substantive presence in Afghanistan. In the coming months, however, India will have to raise its game if it wants to retain any relevance in the evolving strategic milieu in Af-Pak
Harsh V. Pant


Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Click to toggle view

From The Blogs
While the case would and should certainly go to Supreme Court, the eventual resolution will have to come from the society at large
Sundeep Dougal

J&K
Dileep Padgaonkar, a noted journalist, Prof. M.M. Ansari, Information Commissioner and Prof. (Mrs) Radha Kumar, trustee, Delhi Policy Group are appointed to "hold sustained dialogue with all sections of the people in Jammu and Kashmir"
Pakistan
The seeping unhappiness, over the handling of the floods, in the lower ranks of Pakistan army is not only likely to affect its counter-insurgency performance, but would also add to the sympathy for the Talibans
B. Raman
Dispatch 2
In which Dajjal says he has learned that there is such a thing as eschatology - a highly politicised science of belief. Those who fashion it control the 'narrative'.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi


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