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| King and comrades |
| The Maoist victory in Nepal is not as conclusive as is made out |
| Champions of Hindutva might go into sackcloth and ashes and ageing parlour pinks croak with delight, but the Maoist victory in Nepal is almost as exaggerated as Mark Twain’s death. The outcome of the two-phase election, which commentators, wh... |
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| The power of failure |
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Sir — The power failure at the Eden Gardens on April 20 is still being talked about. How many peopl ... |
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| Girl trouble |
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Sir — The prime minister’s message of saving the girl child will not be taken seriously unless our ... |
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| Flight fright |
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Sir — I had been booked on flight IC 202 from New Delhi to Calcutta on April 25, 2008. The schedule ... |
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| AN UNRULY CLASS |
| It is a pity that the minister closest to the football field, the president of the All India Football Federation, Priya Ranja...|
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| Old beauty through new eyes |
| Chitpur exists in multiple avatars that reveal themselves as one ambles down this pathway that stretches from the Lalbazar police headquarters right up to the eponymous tha... |
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| Three women and their world |
| Another group reaches another landmark: Ensemble celebrates its silver jubilee with Mahesh Elkunchwar’s recent Sonata. Under Sohag Sen, Ensemble has an enviable record ... |
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| Where the song is without fear |
| Rabindranath Tagore was anything but orthodox. Musically, his avant garde heterodoxy was as enduringly Modernist, and modern, as that of European contemporaries like Gu... |
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| Salve for the sore heart |
| I read sacred texts of different religions because most of them have passages of great literary merit. Since I cannot read Sa... |
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Gasoline is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
— SIMONE WEIL
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