Famine and conquest in Africa

Even as a programme aimed at accelerating growth and reducing poverty in Africa gains momentum, evidence regarding the contribution made by the polici

Wanted: policy, not hubris

The Union government is wrong to make rosy assumptions about Kashmir. Neither muscle-flexing nor elections can substitute for an inclusive dialogue to

Of order and disorder

The case for a consensus on public order and a policy document for it.

High marks for India

The Genius of India by Guy Sorman; Macmillan; pages 232, Rs.326.

Corporate skulduggery

A sudden flurry of unsavoury revelations involving the corporate world in the United States, and the apparent collapse of even minimal accounting norm

Nuclear ostriches all?

The smugness displayed by Indian and Pakistani policy-makers and strategic "experts" about a possible nuclear conflagration bodes ill for South Asia.

Life among the graves

A survivor of the Gujarat riots attempts to come to terms with the past - and the present.