The Human Tragedy

It is a war without end, a no-win situation in which nobody can provide answers to some questions: How long will this go on? Which…

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Letter From The Editor

Democracy sometimes teaches strange lessons, and the strangest of them all is currently being acted out in the remote Northeastern state of Assam. Since January…

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Letter From The Editor

THERE are, said the poet Wallace Stevens, 13 ways of looking at a blackbird. The essence of that particular truth came home forcefully last fortnight…

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Letter from the Editor

There can be little more excitement for the media than to chronicle political events from inception to climax. Opportunities tend to be rare, but as…

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The Dauphin and the Figurehead

Timing is everything, and with a number of state elections soon, leading to the general election next year, cynicism and opportunism are manifest. The Congress-led…

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CHANGE

When I stepped into this role in mid-2010, it seemed India was unstoppable. Gross Domestic Product growth had averaged 8.5 per cent since 2004, when…

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Ready For Battle

I remember sticking an aluminium one-yen coin and a copper one-US-cent coin to my computer screen in Tokyo around the mid-1990s and watching in fascination…

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Hooks & Crooks

I remember a composite satellite photograph of the world taken at night time. One country stood out like a black blotch on a map that…

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