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| Time to get real |
| India has given Pakistan cause to celebrate |
| It is ironic that in the midst of a red alert of another possible terrorist strike in Mumbai, where allegedly seven specific targets were identified, India should have given cause to the Pakistan army’s general head quarters in Rawalpindi to celebrat... |
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| FAKE MAKEOVER |
| A government runs out of ideas before it runs out of steam. That seems to be the case with West Bengal’s Marxist government. ...|
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| TOWARDS FREEDOM |
| The word, ‘autonomy’, has a faintly revolutionary ring when it emanates as a positive idea from the Union ministry of human r...|
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| Games People Play |
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A new bug has bitten the the Opposition — ‘Manmohan bashing’. This has continued relentlessly over the last few days, much l... | Read.. |
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| Fierceness and fragility |
| A few days before Gangubai Hangal, the grande dame of Hindustani vocal music, passed away, I was reading a book on Louise Bourgeois, the French-born artist and reigning... |
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| Why Toscanini wasn’t a woman |
| Imagine a great symphony orchestra playing Beethoven’s 9th in London, Berlin, Vienna or New York. Now try to imagine a woman conducting this orchestra. Impossible. There could... |
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
— F.H. BRADLEY
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