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February 09, 2010
Pramod Kumar Buravalli
Why India's military needs an urgent update
A strong military cannot be maintained with discipline alone. Today, a strong military means state of the art equipment, steady supply of munitions and morale and most importantly reconnaissance, research and 2nd/3rd strike capabilities, writes Pramod Kumar Buravalli.

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Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Main victims of terror in Pakistan are its women
For militants, controlling women's independence as well as their sexuality becomes the easiest way of showcasing their command and authority. But in the case of Pakistan, it only gives fodder to the pre-existing patriarchal traditions towards women, writes Arfa Khanum Sherwani.

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Bharath Gopalaswamy and Harsh V Pant
Does India need anti-satellite capability?
In the short to medium term India's scarce resources would be better served by focusing on reducing the disparity with China in space. Developing ASAT capability is something that can wait, write Bharath Gopalaswamy and Harsh V Pant.

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February 08, 2010
Satish Chandra: London conference on Afghanistan: Implications for India
TP Sreenivasan: Substance lies in talks and not in talks on talks
B Raman: Revamping the internal security machinery
February 05, 2010
Praful Bidwai: What resumption of talks with Pak means for India
B Raman: Indo-Pak dialogue: Time to expand basket of issues of concern
February 04, 2010
Brigadier (retd) S K Chatterji: Pakistan remains pivotal to an Afghan solution
B Raman: The Taliban is down but not out
Bharat Verma: India unprepared and unwilling to defend democracy
February 03, 2010
B Shantanu: An open letter to Balasaheb from a Marathi Manoos
February 02, 2010
Vivek Gumaste: Why Pakistan can never be a great neighbour
February 01, 2010
T V R Shenoy: Why transparency is critical for the judiciary
Gurmeet Kanwal and Samarjit Ghosh: India ignored at Afghanistan summit
January 27, 2010
Nirupama Rao: View: India harbours no aggressive designs on Pak
Harsh V Pant: View: There's still time for Obama to redeem his presidency
January 25, 2010
B Raman: An open letter to the new NSA
Matthew Schneeberger: Mumbai a Global City? Not in this lifetime!
January 22, 2010
B Raman: Narayanan: A titan of the intelligence community
January 21, 2010
Nitin Gokhale: Be ready for a long haul in Afghanistan
B Raman: Gates' Delhi visit: Strategic course-correction
January 20, 2010
Rajeev Srinivasan: Khost massacre: a point of inflexion in Obama's war?
Claude Arpi: Why India should not get too close to China
January 19, 2010
Lalit Koul: The night from hell, 20 years later
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Is cycling the answer to our urban woes?
January 15, 2010
B Raman: What India can learn from Headley charge-sheet
January 13, 2010
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Search for aesthetics in Mumbai's facade
T V R Shenoy: Much-maligned Bihar does better than Kerala
Satish Chandra: Why India must push for better ties with Bangladesh
January 12, 2010
Harsh V Pant: India's foreign policy comes of age
January 07, 2010
D S Rajan: How China views India's new defence doctrine
January 05, 2010
Colonel Anil A Athale (retd): How India, China can mastermind the Asian century
Vivek Gumaste: The Ruchika case and the banality of evil
December 31, 2009
B S Raghavan: India in 2010- Ready for the big league
Saisuresh Sivaswamy: Congress@125- Past tense, future perfect
T V R Shenoy: Goodbye to a wretched year
December 30, 2009
Harsh V Pant: Why the Congress cannot erase Narasimha Rao
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Election laws need new dimensions
B S Prakash: Have you switched off your book?
December 29, 2009
Rajeev Srinivasan: 2009 - A year beset by problems for India
Seema Mustafa: Congress@125 - A chequered history
Saisuresh Sivaswamy: India gets younger as years go by
December 28, 2009
Sheela Bhatt: Congress@125 - Why the party must not celebrate
Amulya Ganguli
Amulya Ganguli: Congress@125 - With Sonia the party's just begun
B Raman: Al Qaeda's Nigerian link
December 28, 2009
Sheela Bhatt: Congress@125 - Why the party must not celebrate
Amulya Ganguli
Amulya Ganguli: Congress@125 - With Sonia the party's just begun
B Raman: Al Qaeda's Nigerian link
December 24, 2009
B Raman: Will Chidambaram be the internal security czar?
M K Bhadrakumar: Is it the endgame for Pakistan?
December 23, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Forcing people to vote is a good idea
B Raman: Why investigators need to focus more on Rana
December 21, 2009
B Raman: Can Headley derail Indo-US intel co-operation?
December 18, 2009
Seema Mustafa: An avoidable mess over Telangana
December 14, 2009
T V R Shenoy: Why is everyone scared of small states?
Dr Shanthie Mariet D'Souza: Obama's Afghan strategy: Surge or retreat?
December 11, 2009
Kalyani Shankar: The Congress has messed up the Telangana issue
Mohan Guruswamy: The end of the Second Telangana Movement
December 08, 2009
Rajeev Srinivasan: As usual India is left to fight its own battles
December 04, 2009
Praful Bidwai: Kaiga- Question mark over nuclear safety
T P Sreenivasan: A diplomat and a politician
December 03, 2009
Gopal Krishna: The lessons not learnt from Bhopal
December 02, 2009
Colonel Anil Athale (retd): Contours of emerging US strategy in Af-Pak
T P Sreenivasan: Dr Singh's cotton candy visit
Mahesh Vijapurkar: India's tourism potential unrealised
December 01, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar: Afghanistan and the 'Age of Obama'
Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd): Why India needs an intelligence revamp
November 30, 2009
Colonel Anil Athale (retd): Making sense of the Af-Pak cauldron
November 26, 2009
Harsh V Pant: Drift prevails a year after 26/11
November 24, 2009
Tarun Vijay: Barack Obama, us and the US
Rajeev Srinivasan: Why I am worried about Dr Singh's visit
B Raman: 26/11: Questions that need to be posed and answered
November 22, 2009
B Raman: The real plot behind Italian arrests
November 20, 2009
T P Sreenivasan: What Manmohan Singh should tell Barack Obama
B Raman: Why India cannot be an Asian power like China
November 19, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: For Mumbai, slum-free plan may not work
November 17, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar: Will Bonapartist Foneska outgrow Lankan democracy?
Pramod Kumar Buravalli: Indian democracy at the crossroads
November 16, 2009
Wilson John: Decoding the Headley-Rana case
The key to the conspiracy hatched by David Headley and Tahawwur Rana may lie in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

November 13, 2009
Praful Bidwai: The BJP's hour may have passed
'The Karnataka crisis clearly showed the BJP in the grip of regional satraps, for whom the national leadership is of little consequence.'

B Raman: The Chicago conspiracy: What is Rana's role?
Security expert B Raman deciphers the FBI affidavit against Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the Pakistan-origin Canadian arrested with David Headley for alleged Lashkar connections, and speculates who could be their handlers in Pakistan.

November 12, 2009
Gurmeet Kanwal: Defeating 'new terrorism': India must act
November 11, 2009
Bharat Verma: How India must face the Chinese threat
Rajeev Srinivasan: Roses in November: In search of righteousness
Mahesh Vijapurkar: An open letter to Raj Thackeray
T V R Shenoy: Will the route of Koda's loot be dealt with?
November 10, 2009
D S Rajan: Chinese media builds up anti-India rhetoric
Tarun Vijay: Every Indian language is a great one
November 09, 2009
Kanchan Gupta: Proud to sing Vande Mataram!
Vivek Gumaste: Aren't we all minorities, Mr Chidambaram?
B S Prakash: Join the party in Rio!
Tashi Phuntsok: Tibet, India's legitimate ticket to own Arunachal
November 06, 2009
B Raman: Heightened alert needed on 26/11 anniversary
November 05, 2009
Mohammad Sajjad: One song cannot make or mar the future of a nation
Mahesh Vijapurkar: The stench of money in politics
November 03, 2009
A K Verma: Talks with Pak will only end in frustration
Harsh V Pant: Why India needs to crush the Maoist insurgency
Prasanna D Zore: Why the Thackeray cousins love the media
P V Ramanna: Dealing with Maoists: Pragmatism setting in
November 02, 2009
T V R Shenoy: Will the glitter of a Nobel outshine common sense?
October 28, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: The dangers of dynastic politics in Maharashtra
October 26, 2009
B Raman: Will India ask the Dalai Lama to postpone Tawang visit?
Praful Bidwai: Bt brinjal, a step towards disaster
T V R Shenoy: Can the BJP-Sena get their act together?
October 26, 2009
B Raman: Will India ask the Dalai Lama to postpone Tawang visit?
Praful Bidwai: Bt brinjal, a step towards disaster
T V R Shenoy: Can the BJP-Sena get their act together?
October 21, 2009
Straws in the wind from China
October 15, 2009
Vivek Gumaste: Why India should rake up the Tibet issue
October 14, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Why does Mumbai refuse to vote?
B Raman: How to counter China on Arunachal Pradesh
October 13, 2009
T V R Shenoy: After today's polls, watch out for Bengal next!
Harsh V Pant: India must deploy troops in Afghanistan
October 12, 2009
Rup Narayan Das: India-Russia ties - Calibrating a fine balance
October 09, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar: Why India's diplomacy is in disarray
October 08, 2009
Brahma Chellaney: To China's delight, India reins in its media
October 07, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: A constable's perspective of politicians
Neerja Chowdhury: Will our democracy be limited to 500 families?
October 06, 2009
B S Prakash: Obama and your grandmother
September 25, 2009
Anil A Athale: Why India needs nuclear weapons
S K Chatterjee: Essential to strengthen India's nuclear deterrence
September 24, 2009
D S Rajan: China worried over US-India military cooperation
T V R Shenoy: Why Maharashtra is going back to the 18th century
Brahma Chellaney: Why peace seems elusive in Sri Lanka
September 23, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Why seat sharing and nominations take time
September 22, 2009
Anil A Athale: Emerging India - Insecure and unsafe
A Gopalakrishnana: Thermonuclear fizzle - India needs to test again
Kanchan Gupta: Twittering about Shashi's tweet
September 18, 2009
Prem Panicker: Holy cow! Congress and the power of 71 characters
Praful Bidwai: How many bombs does India need?
September 17, 2009
B Raman: Why Santhanam's Pokhran revelations are too late
Sanjeev Nayyar: So who was really responsible for Partition?
September 16, 2009
Sheela Bhatt: Politicians care a damn about our money
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Maharashtra poll- Trying times for troubled allies
B Raman: Why Barack Obama won't meet the Dalai Lama
M K Bhadrakumar: Hypocrisy of the 'austerity drive' must stop Now!
September 15, 2009
Vivek Gumaste: Are Nepal's Maoists a threat to India?
September 10, 2009
T V R Shenoy: Why the hurry in Andhra Pradesh?
B Raman: Chinese military unhappy with Indian media
September 09, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: A penchant for pelf and ostentation
September 08, 2009
B Raman: The danger of the India-China hysteria
Kanchan Gupta: Advani, the lion in winter
September 07, 2009
Brahma Chellaney: Why India is Clueless about China
August 31, 2009
T P Sreenivasan: How Santy's Bombshell will impact India
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Why Mumbai needs to look outwards
August 31, 2009
L V Krishnan: Why Pokhran yield does matter now
B Raman: What regime change in Japan means for India
M K Bhadrakumar: US shouldn't manipulate Karzai's ouster
Vivek Gumaste: Does it matter if Advani knew or not?
Brahma Chellaney: India, a reluctant and tentative nuclear power
August 28, 2009
Anupam Trivedi: UPA's 100 days and a 100 lies later...
B Raman: China's growing role in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
August 25, 2009
Harsh V Pant: Why we should heed navy chief's warning on China
Mahesh Vijapurkar: We need a drinking water security act
August 25, 2009
Vivek Gumaste: Jaswant Singh's expulsion: Why the BJP was right
August 21, 2009
Tarun Vijay: Why India needs the BJP
T P SReenivasan: The US may have no nuclear trade with India
August 19, 2009
Dr Shanthie Mariet D'Souza: Afghan polls: Democracy in difficult times
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Civic irresponsibility and scandals
August 18, 2009
Pramod Kumar Buravalli: Affirmative action more important than the Arihant
August 17, 2009
Ajit Balakrishnan: Have we really stepped out from the old to the new?
August 14, 2009
Dr Sandeep Pandey: A long wait for Independence
August 13, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: The flu, the scare and the confusion
August 12, 2009
Kanwal Sibal: Talks with China head nowhere
August 11, 2009
Gopal Krishna: Not enough teeth in Green Tribunal Bill
August 10, 2009
B Raman: Border talks: Mixed signals from China
Hamid Mir: Pakistan doesn't need secret deals with militants
August 07, 2009
B Raman: Obama's new nuanced counter-terrorism policy
L K Advani: Cultural nationalism is not anti-Muslim
August 05, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Why Indians need to get angry
August 04, 2009
Vivek Gumaste: Why not a military option against Pakistan?
M P Anil Kumar: How the govt can reform the defence set-up
August 03, 2009
Praful Bidwai: Sinking billions into nuclear weapons
B Raman: Is Myanmar acquiring nuclear weapons?
July 31, 2009
Mohan Guruswamy: Let's talk about Baluchistan
July 30, 2009
B raman: Will the prime minister emulate Reagan?
Praful Bidwai: Indo-Pak dialogue: Reckless gamble or cautious first step?
Dr Sandeep Pandey: Dr Singh breaks new path in Indo-Pak relations
July 29, 2009
Sanjeev Nayyar: Why the Thackeray cousins must unite
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Mumbai's neglect of slums
B S Prakash: Can you be greedy and good?
Basharat Peer: Why 'Kashmir's Obama' failed his state
July 28, 2009
Vikram Sood: India scoring own goals against Pakistan
Mohan Guruswamy: Call for Pashtun nation is not far away
July 23, 2009
Sadanand Menon: Balance sheet of our musical wealth seems in peril
July 23, 2009
B Raman: No harm in talking to the ISI
July 22, 2009
T P Sreenivasan: Hillary sets up camp right on track
July 21, 2009
T V R Shenoy: The maladministration of Kerala
July 20, 2009
T P Sreenivasan: Good intention, bad drafting
B Raman: India unwitting party to demonising Balochistan
July 17, 2009
B Raman: Indo-Pak statement lets down the martyrs of 26/11
Vivek Gumaste: Why Kashmir has no case for self-determination
July 15, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Dry or wet? Gujarat's prohibition conundrum
July 14, 2009
T V R Shenoy: Can the PM do what he wants?
July 10, 2009
M P Anil Kumar: Let's develop a military space programme
Vivek Gumaste: BJP and resurgent India: Are they incompatible?
Dr Devdutt Pattanaik :Baba Ramdev is wrong, homosexuality is no disease
July 09, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Why outcomes and not govt spending are important
July 08, 2009
T V R Shenoy: Have authorities in Bengal taken leave of their senses?
B Raman: Urumqi riots force Hu Jintao to cancel G-8 trip
July 07, 2009
B Raman: What led to China's worst ethnic flare up
July 02, 2009
M P Anil Kumar: Star trek of the hare and the tortoise
July 01, 2009
B S Raghavan: An Aam Aadmi's letter to the PM
B Raman: Why the Pakistan Army is struggling against the Taliban
Mahesh Vijapurkar: The rot in our jail system
June 29, 2009
B Raman: The BBC's unlikely story on 26/11
Sushant Sareen: View: Why dialogue with Pakistan is futile
June 26, 2009
B Raman: Why the US and Pak Army want Baitullah Mehsud
June 25, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Footpaths are for walking only
Bharat Verma: The three dangers that India faces
June 24, 2009
B Raman: How to counter the Maoists
June 22, 2009
Hamid Mir: Double games don't work in Pakistan
June 17, 2009
T P Sreenivasan: 'Pakistan will project it as a diplomatic victory'
T V R Shenoy: What exactly is 'Hindu nationalist' about the BJP?
Nazarwala: What is Mayawati up to?
June 15, 2009
B Raman: Foreign policy priorities for the new government
June 12, 2009
B S Prakash: What tweets tell us about the human condition
June 11, 2009
Kanchan Gupta: The knives are out in the BJP
June 10, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Of patronage and failed civic governance
June 08, 2009
T P Sreenivasan: 5 days away from the news cycle
T V R Shenoy: India has moved on, her leaders have not
June 05, 2009
T P Sreenivasan: If only a fine speech could help!
Gopal Krishna: Five things the environment minister must do
June 04, 2009
Colonel Anil Athale (retd): Is it the end of the LTTE?
Nazarwala: Congress's secret weapon in UP
June 03, 2009
Mahesh Vijaurkar: Politics -- now a closed, charmed circle
Indrani Roy Mitra: Cyclone Alia exposes Left
June 02, 2009
T V R Shenoy: The muddle of the govt's portfolios
B Raman: Saeed's release: Fresh oxygen for the LeT
May 29, 2009
Nazarwala: BJP lags behind, but Rajnath races ahead
B Raman: Why the Taliban is attacking the ISI
B S Prakash: Brazil: Pele, Ronaldinho, Samba
May 28, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: The signs of change in Bihar
Colonel Anil A Athale (retd): Why security must top the government's agenda
T P Sreenivasan: India-US - Hazardous days ahead
May 27, 2009
B Raman: What's common to terror attacks in India and Pak
May 26, 2009
T V R Shenoy: First days of our new government: A reality check
Gurmeet Kanwal: UPA must move quick on national security
A K Bhattacharya: PM has opportunity to improve quality of governance
May 25, 2009
Latha Jishnu: The Binayak Sen factor
B S Raghavan: The DMK overplayed its hand
May 24, 2009
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Global leaders advised us against fighting LTTE
May 23, 2009
Tarun Vijay: Isn't India greater than us all?
Praful Bidwai: Aam Aadmi please, not India Inc
May 22, 2009
Sheela Bhatt: A New Congress for New India
T V R Shenoy: The time for excuses is over, Mr Prime Minister
A Ganesh Nadar: For god's sake, this is not Karunanidhi's govt!
May 19, 2009
Ganesh Nadar :The day I met Prabhakaran
M K Bhadrakumar: Blood on our hands, but this too shall pass
May 18, 2009
B Raman: LTTE may be defeated, but India must be careful
Sanjaya Baru: Re-centering the Congress Party
May 17, 2009
Saisuresh Sivaswamy: A vote for a new dawn
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Telecast news just twice a day
Rajeev Srinivasan: After the counting and other stories
Chandrima Pal: Why PM must send Anees Bazmi flowers
B Raman: Shock & awe on Hindutva Web sites
May 16, 2009
T P Sreenivasan: Shashi Tharoor makes history
Indrani Roy Mitra: Fissures in CPI-M over poll debacle?
B Raman: The Lessons of Election 2009
Sheela Bhatt: A thoughtful verdict for stability
May 15, 2009
T V R Shenoy: How the Left could veer to the Congress
May 14, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Not political spokespersons, only spinmeisters!
Sheela Bhatt: Why is Dr Singh smiling?
May 13, 2009
Col A Sridharan VSM (retd): Have we forgotten Kargil already?
Aravind Adiga: A head start for India's next prime minister
Indrani Roy Mitra: Is Mamata Banerjee the change Bengal seeks?
Nazarwala: Mayawati will be shocked on May 16
May 12, 2009
B Raman: TN politicians don't care about Sri Lankan Tamils
May 09, 2009
Lieutenant Colonel Vijay A Mittal (retd): Pakistan's military, mullah, ISI mix
May 08, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: The disconnect between urban and rural schools
May 07, 2009
Himanshu Thakkar: On water issues, the UPA has failed us
May 06, 2009
Francois Gautier: The Kafkaesque streak in Indian politics
T V R Shenoy: Will we see a return to revolving-door ministries?
May 05, 2009
Sheela Bhatt: The day Rahul moved centre-stage
B Raman: Can India get back funds in tax havens?
Nazarwala: Heartland trio puts up 'No Entry' sign for Mayawati
May 04, 2009
Dr S Chandrasekharan: Nepal is at war with itself
Rajeev Srinivasan: Endgame and tragedy in Sri Lanka
May 02, 2009
Praful Bidwai :BJP succumbs to Moditva
May 01, 2009
B Raman: Can terrorirsts get hold of Pakistan's nukes?
April 30, 2009
T V R Shenoy: AP, Orissa, TN hold the key to Congress fortunes
April 29, 2009
Sheela Bhatt: The CBI is a habitual offender
April 28, 2009
Colonel (Dr) Anil Athale (retd): Implications of Talibanised Pakistan for India
April 25, 2009
Latha Jishnu: View: A safe little back door to power
April 24, 2009
Sheela Bhatt: By default, the BJP gains ground
Colonel (Dr) Anil Athale (retd): Taliban takeover of Pak is inevitable, imminent
April 23, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: The shoes are a-raining! And how!
April 21, 2009
B Raman: On fighting terror, Cong and BJP have poor records
Nazarwala: UP Muslims seek protection against BJP
April 18, 2009
T N Ninan: Let's have sharper debates
Sunil Sethi: Dilemma of the Delhi voter
April 17, 2009
Praful Bidwai: Does the Third Front have a future?
April 16, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: Why Dr Singh and Advani need to talk
April 15, 2009
Shreekant Sambrani: Why Polls 2009 could be the Jaya and Maya show
M P Anil Kumar: How we can reform the politician
April 14, 2009
Sheela Bhatt: Election 2009 seems like 543 mini elections
T V R Shenoy: Why we should fear the Samajwadi Party
B S Raghavan: Why did Holbrooke visit India on poll eve?
April 13, 2009
Rajeev Srinivasan: My dilemma with Shashi Tharoor
April 10, 2009
Why politicians get richer after every term
April 09, 2009
T V R Shenoy: The drift and decline of the Left
Kanchan Gupta: Why we should fear the Talibani mindset
April 06, 2009
Rajeev Srinivasan: Triage: A winning strategy for the BJP
April 06, 2009
Nazarwala: Maya, Mulayam battle for the Muslim vote
Praful Bidwai: Sanjay Gandhi is reborn in the BJP
April 02, 2009
Amulya Ganguli: Why Varun Gandhi's voice may be stilled
April 01, 2009
Dr Sandeep Pandey: What do Varun Gandhi's pronouncements mean?
T V R Shenoy: Why varun and why not Geelani?
Jyoti Malhotra: The BJP's dilemma over Varun Gandhi
March 31, 2009
Bhavdeep Kang: Why UPA's farm policy won't win votes
B Raman: US Af-Pak policy: Bush wine in Obama bottle
March 30, 2009
Gurmeet Kanwal: Pakistan: On the brink again
B Raman: US Af-Pak policy: Bush wine in Obama bottle
March 27, 2009
Praful Bidwai: View - The shifting logic of poll alliances
Tarun Vijay: Family legacy and the Varun effect
Nazarwala: Figuring out Arun Jaitley's googly
March 25, 2009
B Raman: The ploy behind the Kupwara encounter
Colonel Dr Anil Athale (retd): Terrorism: Are infantry commandos the answer?
Sudheendra Kulkarni: Six reasons why Congress will lose Election 2009
Rajeev Srinivasan: UPA will cost India economic superstardom
Arvind Subramanian: The tantalising promise of the next election
March 24, 2009
T V R Shenoy: The CPM's duplicity in Kerala
T P Sreenivasan: Limited choice for next IAEA chief
March 23, 2009
B Raman: What the CIA chief's visit to India, Pak means
Praful Bidwai: Impressive victory of people's power in Pakistan
Seema Mustafa: Why India needs its regional parties
March 18, 2009
Harsh V Pant: India's new-found irrelevance in US policy
Mahesh Vijapurkar: What choices does a voter have?
March 17, 2009
T V R Shenoy: The illusion that is the Third Front
March 16, 2009
Dr Sandeep Pandey: The Taliban is not only Pakistan's problem
March 12, 2009
Mahesh Vijapurkar: The BJP should drop its alliance with Shiv Sena
Yoginder Sikand: Madhyamam - A Muslim media success story
March 10, 2009
Rajeev Srinivasan: Not cricket, just the ISI gaining strategic depth
Harsh Pant: Is India ready for Pakistan's coming collapse?
March 09, 2009
B Raman: IPL is not about national pride
Tarun Vijay: Elect those who choose India as life-force
Aditi Phadnis: Is BJP's 'muscular' foreign policy the answer?
T V R Shenoy: Why regional leaders will decide Delhi's rulers
Colonel Dr Anil Athale (retd): President Obama's challenges in AfPak
March 07, 2009
Ram Madhav: Rogue Pakistan's biggest victim is India
Rajeev Srinivasan: The end of the immigration boom
March 06, 2009
Praful Bidwai: The final wake-up call for Pakistan
Wilson John: Pakistan: After Lahore attack, Zardari's exit is certain
B Raman: Are Pakistan's nukes safe from the jihadis?
March 04, 2009
Ameen Izzadeen: Lankan view: Why the Lahore attack hurt
T V R Shenoy: Let the seat-sharing squabbles begin
B Raman: Key questions on Lahore attack answered
March 02, 2009
Analysis: Parties jostle for election allies and issues
February 27, 2009
Francois Gautier: 26/11 - A Taj survivor's untold story
Pramod Kumar Buravalli: How India can hasten its climb as a superpower
February 26, 2009
B Raman:Trouble brews for India in East
February 25, 2009
Bharat Verma: The Taliban must be contained & destroyed within Pakistan
February 23, 2009
Sreenath Sreenivasa: Just why am I a champion of Slumdog?
February 20, 2009
Wilson John: Afghan troop surge: Good, but not enough
Praful Bidwai: Why we will have a free-for-all election
Claude Arpi: Why China could have a difficult 2009
February 19, 2009
Colonel Anil A Athale (retd): Barbarians at the gate, are we ready?
February 18, 2009
Praful Bidwai: Talibanisation could soon devour Pakistan
Tunku Varadarajan: Obama should visit India -- soon
February 16, 2009
T P Sreenivasan: Slumdog -'Poverty porn at its worst'
February 13, 2009
B Raman: How India should respond to Pakistan's volte-face
Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd): Trying Ajmal in India is not a good idea
Kaustav Dhar Chakrabarti: Taliban spreads into Pakistan's heart
M R Venkatesh: How the UPA devalues democracy
February 12, 2009
Gurmeet Kanwal: Defence R&D- What India needs to do
February 11, 2009
Hamid Mir in Islamabad: In Swat, Pakistan army faces 1971-like situation
B Raman: Al Qaeda threat - Questions without answers
February 10, 2009
M K Bhadra Kumar: Pakistan resurrects an Al Qaeda ghost
T V R Shenoy: What exactly does Prakash Karat stand for?
B S Prakash: Is hard work worth it?
February 05, 2009
Nazarwala: Dame Luck favours Dumb Congress in UP
February 04, 2009
B Raman: Why the LTTE hates Sonia Gandhi
T V R Shenoy: Lok Sabha is not the place for local politics
February 03, 2009
T P Sreenivasan: Kudos to the 2 scientists who made India proud
February 02, 2009
B S Raghavan: Unfair to impute motives to CEC
M R Venkatesh: Why New Delhi fiddles when Lanka burns
Tarun Vijay: Why are women always the target?
January 27, 2009
T V R Shenoy: What business as usual means in India
January 23, 2009
B S Raghavan: Why Obama must deliver fast
January 21, 2009
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