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| Uneasy neighbours |
| India and Pakistan nurture mistaken perceptions of each other |
| There are revealing contrasts in perceptions on both sides of the border of the Shoaib-Sania marriage and of Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah. Equally a sign of the times, at the Indian briefing in Washington on the recent Manmohan Singh-Barack Obama m... |
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| Keep it simple |
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Sir — It is interesting to learn that about 100 companies have responded to the government’s propos ... |
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| New approach |
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Sir — From the perspective of development and welfare, the implementation of a policy that would ... |
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| Mad rush |
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Sir — The railway authorities should be careful while making announcements for changes in train sch ... |
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| TRUST DEFICIT |
| A bad peace is often the prelude to another war. The patch-up between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Jharkhand Mukti Morc...|
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| FRIENDLY FIRE |
| It was in Bagram that Barack Obama had pledged to reverse the momentum of the Taliban insurgency a little over a month ago. I...|
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| Bell the Cat |
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Two unrelated news caught the eyes of this author on the morning of March 15, 2010. First was the electronic media’s weekly w... | Read.. |
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| Swirling from sorrow to joy |
| Nature is hell-bent on restoring order among its constituents, which hardly ever remain stable. The process of regaining stability often appears in the form of natural hazards... |
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| The battle against the heat beast |
| Heat, any sensible physics textbook will tell you, is the transfer of energy from one body to another through contact. It follows the laws of thermodynamics. It is measured ou... |
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| A lost season |
| The cuckoo’s call has always intrigued me. Its relentless urgency creates a sweet yet sad monotony inside the head. The sound haunted me so much that I made both my mobile rin... |
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. — SAMUEL JOHNSON
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