COVER STORY
Briefing
The unhappy alliance
ANYONE who had just tuned in might find it impossible to believe that the National Conference (N.C.) and the Bharatiya Janata Party are ...
THE LONG HAUL
The Bharatiya Janata Party attempts one more high-risk gamble in the form of the Arun Jaitley mission in Jammu and Kashmir, where competing and ...
A painful pilgrimage
TERRORISTS were expected to pose the big threat to the Amarnath Yatra this summer. So far, greed, corruption and communalism have worked ...
For de-escalation and dialogue
Interview with Pakistan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Inam ul Haque. Indian lawyer-scholar and commentator A.G. Noorani met him ...
A delicate mission
As U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell comes calling with a soft-sell approach to issues of bilateral engagement, India remains cautious in ...
A change in perception
The July 13 killings in Jammu have brought to the fore the changed perceptions of the U.S. and its allies on the tensions in South Asia. They ...
A massacre and a message
The Qasim Nagar killings have a special import, coming as they did in the middle of a large-scale political enterprise aimed at separating ...
A VOICE FROM KASHMIR
Lawrence Lifschultz interviews Abdul Ghani Lone (1932-2002). What follows is an outspoken and detailed interview given by Lone to the ...
POTA and some dilemmas
MDMK leader Vaiko's arrest under POTA has occasioned some political contortions in the National Democratic Alliance. THE arrest ...
Arms deals in the making
Arms manufacturers are vying with one another to sell India new weapon systems. THREE howitzer manufacturers from Israel, South ...
A question of timing and more
RARELY has the timing of Assembly elections in a State taken on a crucial political meaning as in the case of Narendra Modi's Gujarat.
Gujarat game plan
Chief Minister Narendra Modi's strategy of calling for early elections in Gujarat may not pay off in the face of voter anger, an invigorated ...
To divide and rule
Pattali Makkal Katchi leader Dr. S. Ramadoss shocks Tamil Nadu by suggesting the bifurcation of the State. DR. S. RAMADOSS, the ...
Signs of change
Dalit and women panchayat presidents are seemingly gaining acceptance, albeit slowly, in the caste-ridden villages of Tirunelveli and Madurai ...
One who dared to fight
WITHIN weeks of assuming charge as president of the Shenbagaraman Nallur village panchayat in Tirunelveli district, a post reserved for ...
Martyr for a cause
The gruesome murder of Navleen Kumar, a social worker in Maharashtra's Thane district, points once again to the nefarious alliance among local ...
Justice delayed, but not denied
Stiff judicial verdicts in two sensational criminal cases which saw protracted proceedings, occasions a collective sigh of relief in Kerala.
Jharkhand's crisis
By trying to resurrect a 1982 notification and expand its scope to provide an enhanced level of job reservations to Jharkhand's tribal people, ...
The latest recruit
The arrest of the former Chairman of the Maharashtra Public Service Commission, who later became a member of the Union Public Service ...
'Bad domestic policy can never produce good diplomacy'
K. Natwar Singh, Rajya Sabha member and Congress spokesman on foreign affairs, has been very critical of the National Democratic Alliance ...
A delicate mission
As U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell comes calling with a soft-sell approach to issues of bilateral engagement, India remains cautious in ...
A change in perception
The July 13 killings in Jammu have brought to the fore the changed perceptions of the U.S. and its allies on the tensions in South Asia. They ...
A massacre and a message
The Qasim Nagar killings have a special import, coming as they did in the middle of a large-scale political enterprise aimed at separating ...
A VOICE FROM KASHMIR
Lawrence Lifschultz interviews Abdul Ghani Lone (1932-2002). What follows is an outspoken and detailed interview given by Lone to the ...
Lessons from the insurance sector
Patterns in the insurance sector in India post-liberalisation have so far contradicted the predictions of those who argued that the opening up ...
Contrite for real?
In a dramatic action that is viewed with much scepticism, the Irish Republican Army apologises for the civilian casualties it has caused and ...
A truce on test
The reopening of a crucial highway between Batticaloa and Badulla in Sri Lanka generates new optimism, but communal violence puts a question ...
Revolution and counter-revolution
The revolution is real, so is the counter-revolution. The story of President Hugo Chavez' political evolution in Venezuela. THE ...
Confronting the times
A picture of commitment and development directions in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a socialist success. Text and ...
The massacre at Kakarak
Of arrogance and Pentagon-speak, in the midst of chasing Mullah Omar's shadows and keeping Hamid Karzai in power.
Cripps and India's Partition-II
ALLEN CLARKE records the secret parleys between Sir Stafford Cripps and Pethick Lawrence (and A.V. Alexander) with Gandhi and ...
Starving still in Jharkhand
A public hearing on hunger and the right to food, held in one of India's most deprived areas following starvation deaths, reveals gross ...
For reliable cyclone detection
The India Meteorological Department hopes to set up a nationwide network of Doppler weather radars to predict with better accuracy the time of ...
Survivors' struggle
Three activists representing the Bhopal gas survivors end their 18-day-old fast in New Delhi following the Union government's partial ...
An award and despair
The people affected by pollution caused by tannery units in six districts in Tamil Nadu are left disappointed by an award that they see as ...
The riddle of a river
Union Minister Jagmohan's efforts to establish a role for the Sarasvati river in the Indus Valley civilisation take the shape of a project of ...
Chasing the rains and relief
The near failure of the monsoon has affected agricultural operations in 11 States. WITH the forecast of a good monsoon turned on ...
That infectious greed
On the U.S. stock market meltdown and its troubling implications for the world economy at large. IN late January, 2002, Paul ...
A Bill of contention
The draft Bill to amend the Representation of the People Act, meant to undo the Election Commission's move to make certain information about ...
Wanted, overall reforms
In fighting criminalisation in the electoral arena, Parliament has a unique opportunity presented before it today, and this opportunity ought ...
Gujarat
Reading the articles on in the August 2 issue (Cover story: "Chariots of fear") made me immensely distressed. While the cause of the ...
To pursue wilful defaulters
The government finally moves to enable banks and financial institutions to go after defaulting borrowers effectively. But some aspects of the ...
JPC and a leak
WHEN media reports emerged last fortnight of a draft report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee inquiring into the financial irregularities ...
The genuine article
Former all-rounder Kapil Dev is adjudged Wisden's Indian Cricketer of the Century. A SPORTSPERSON'S life is often a journey along ...
A President and a promise
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam becomes the country's eleventh President. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM was sworn in the 11th President of India at a ...
Distinction and dignity
An assessment of K.R. Narayanan's eventful presidential tenure. K.R. NARAYANAN assumed the presidency in July 1997 after a record ...