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| June 27, 2008 | |
'Here's my pistol, come on shoot me'
'He deserved to be field marshal because he carried the air force and navy with him in '71. Remember we were fighting on two fronts -- east and west. He stood out.'
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| June 26, 2008 | |
Sonia, Karat ready with exit plan
It is a matter of time before the Left parties severe its ties with the UPA or the UPA gears up for a confrontation with its Left supporters by going ahead with the nuclear deal.
What's the price for the eye of a child?
Sudali has lost vision in an eye, allegedly beause her teacher threw a glass at her. Her parents want money to withdraw their complaint.
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| June 20, 2008 | |
Will Shilpa Shetty’s yoga transform your life?
Is this DVD really a showcase for Shilpa or Shilpa's yoga?
Abode of the Gods
If there is one place on this planet where God can be touched and felt, it has to be the Kailas Manasarovar region -- it is indescribable, beyond the power of words to capture; it is perhaps the one experience that defines the state of being.
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| June 5, 2008 | |
Revealed: How SIMI works
An IB dossier on the organisation indicates that SIMI split in 2006. The IB says SIMI provides logistical support to the Laskhar-e-Tayiba and Harkat-ul-Jihadi.
DRDO's secret technology wish list
The new outreach from a traditionally inward-focused DRDO is rooted in a realistic assessment that the international sanctions regimes have loosened; global arms majors are eager to provide technologies that can fill in gaps in the DRDO's own technology bank.
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| June 4, 2008 | |
China diary: A Bangalorean in awe
The Chinese do everything on the grand scale, planning for a hundred years ahead. The new Pudong international airport will be good enough for virtually a century. It is about 40 kilometres from the city and the magnetic levitation train covers the distance in eight minutes. Compare that with Bangalore's agonising access problems over the new airport!
Akbar's Jodha a happy myth: Rushdie
'All the Mughals were alcoholic.'
DRDO's plan for an eye in the sky
The UAV project will be an important test for the DRDO's new thinking, it will, equally be a test for the concept of bringing a private sector company into a major project as the DRDO's industry partner.
The Wound of History
The events at Tiananmen Square 19 years ago this day have an uncanny resemblance to this year's events in Tibet.
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| June 3, 2008 | |
New DRDO: Technology first, weapons later
The DRDO has clearly decided that developing technologies is at least as important as developing weapons systems. V K Aatre, DRDO chief from 2000-04, had said, "Weapons programmes and technologies have to maintain equal pace." Only now is the DRDO heeding his advice.
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| May 30, 2008 | |
How India Lives: For the love of Billo
It is summer and the markets of Shimla sell cherries and strawberries, but Sonu says it is wheat and vegetables that are of relevance to him. The prices are too high for him to get by.
The political colours of India
What will India look like if the colours of the parties ruling the various states were to be plotted on a map?
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| May 27, 2008 | |
The waiter who will be an IAS officer
Jayaganesh's story is inspiring because he comes from a very poor background in a village in Tamil Nadu, and though he studied to be an engineer, he worked at odd jobs, even as a waiter for a short while, to realise his dream of becoming an IAS officer.
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| May 26, 2008 | |
McCain's invitation to Jindal 'strategic'
By fueling speculation that the Louisiana governor could be a candidate for vice-president, John McCain is reaching out to the far right of the Republican party that is enamoured with Jindal.
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| May 25, 2008 | |
16th loss for Congress since 2004
The defeat in Karnataka is the Congress party's 16th loss in the four years that it returned to power at the Centre. India has seen 24 assembly elections since 2004.
SEC fingers Bush's Indian pa
Dr Zachariah P Zachariah, arguably the most influential Indian- American Republican and a major fund-raiser for the party for more than two decades and a close friend of the Bush family, has been charged with insider trading by the United States's Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| May 21, 2008 | |
The mind of a terrorist
The people who are grooming him psyche him so much continuously till he is fully committed and convinced and says 'Yes I will do it!'
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| May 20, 2008 | |
Tribute: 'Tendulkar used violence as a metaphor'
'I always maintained that for Vijay Tendulkar violence did not mean merely physical violence or torture. It also meant interpersonal relationship between dominance and violence -- not only male dominance over females but also vice versa. Sometimes it is the powerful vs the weak, sometimes the weak acquires power out of that very same weakness as happens in Sakharam Binder. For him human relationships were power relationships. And power relationships are based on violence.'
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| May 14, 2008 | |
Why terrorists attack soft targets
'The ease with which the terrorists have been operating in different parts of the country is also due to deterioration in the quality of policing in the urban as well as rural areas.'
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| May 13, 2008 | |
A year on, Mayawati bulldozes opponents
The 52-year-old Dalit woman created history by rising to occupy the highest political office of India's most populous state on her own strength. Raised and nurtured by her political mentor and BSP founder -- the late Kanshi Ram, she has created another history of sorts over these 12 months -- of demolitions and constructions.
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| May 12, 2008 | |
How India Lives
What is the real India? How do ordinary Indians live? Launching a new series.
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| May 09, 2008 | |
Scoop: What India gets under the IAEA agreement
It is paradoxical that even those members who are most crucial in the decision-making process, leave alone the public, are denied access to scrutinise the full text of the IAEA agreement while many in the international community, particularly those from the NSG countries, must be scanning it with a microscope!
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| May 05, 2008 | |
In China's wild, wild west
The Uighurs are China's Turkic Muslims in a volatile region where unrest sits on a keg of cultural alienation.
Lunch with India's Tiger Man
'The first tiger crisis was in 1992. 16 years later, we are back where we started. It doesn't give one much hope,' says Valmik Thapar.
Exclusive: Lhasa, A Paradise Lost
The Chinese takeover of Tibet is only superficially about force. Less noticed, Tarun Vijay notes, is the subtle, almost unnoticed cultural makeover that has transformed Lhasa into a shadow of its former spiritual self.
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