US school shooting: Trigger-happy nation debates gun control
byWashington: The massacre of the innocents in a Connecticut elementary school has rekindled a debate over America’s gun control laws, but prospects of any “meaningful…
Opinion
Madame Dixit —- mind your words !!!!
byWhen the going gets tough the tough gets going. The Congress led UPA II government does not ever seem to be away from the…
What’s the mystery of the Indira-Abdullah accord?
bySrinagar: For nearly 37 years, Jammu and Kashmir’s regional National Conference (NC) has been criticizing the central government for not implementing the terms of the…
GMR fiasco: What India needs to learn from it?
byThe GMR fiasco has rung danger bells to Indian ears. Maldives government took control of the Male International Airport from the Indian company GMR…
Dowry System: Even education isn’t of much help
bySwapna laid in the bed of Government hospital recuperating the burnt marks on her body. She refuses to speak with anybody. A regular girl…
Anthropocene Unfolding
byWe can’t put a date on when geological epochs begin or end. But to say that Anthropocene began circa 19th/20th century would be reasonable;…
Revisiting a historic Ayodhya – secular and diverse
byNew Delhi: A 16th century historical work tells of an Afghan army which went out of Ayodhya – which was controlled by local chiefs –…
Fair to women and East Asians (The Funny Side) Moustaches wars not
byPicture the scene. A banker, reluctant to give out a large cash loan to a desperate man, asks: “But do you have any valuable…
Has the stock market revived for an appetite of fresh IPOs
byThe Sensex stocks have outperformed the new issues on the bourse in the past two years but now there seems a revival of the…
Mumbai riots 1992-93: The days that changed the city
byMumbai: It was a rather cool evening in the second week of December 1992 when I was permitted to leave early – to rush from…