Poor leadership
Conflicting are the reports giving “reasons” why a jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force shot dead his immediate superior and three others at the Basaguda camp in Chattisgarh last week. What is...
View ArticleArab counter-blast
Donald Trump has ignited a major flutter in the Arab roost. On the eve of the seventh anniversary of the Arab Spring, the ferment has intensified if Sunday’s meeting of foreign ministers in Cairo is...
View ArticleInert Conscience
There is a raging epidemic of rapes across the country, one more gruesome than the other, more often in the National Capital Region and around. It would be pertinent to mention the screaming headlines...
View ArticleFlag Day should be on 16 December
Information on the Armed Forces Flag day was for the first time well disseminated across the nation employing every medium, mainly social. While the event did get good coverage and possibly reasonable...
View ArticleUtterly trumped by ignorance
Perhaps appropriately, the first heavy rain after weeks of sunshine was s plashing off the paving stones outside bookseller Imad Muna’s news and stationery shop in Saladin, the busy main shopping...
View ArticleSobriety snaps
Simmering tensions in the Supreme Court appear to have boiled over ~ and the nation risks being impoverished in the process. The decision of the respected Senior Advocate, Mr Rajeev Dhavan, to withdraw...
View ArticleLeft turn in Nepal
Close to three years after the earthquake devastated Nepal, stability of governance has somehow been a scarce commodity in the Himalayan country. The significance of this week’s parliamentary and...
View ArticleStepping Stone
The Ministry of External Affairs on 8 December 2017 welcomed the decision of the Wassenaar Arrangement to admit India as the 42nd member of the organisation, which aims to regulate trade and use of...
View ArticleSingapore’s push to e-cars
This week, Singapore will see the launch of its first electric vehicle (EV) public car-sharing programme, with an initial roll-out of 80 vehicles hitting the roads. How it works looks simple enough....
View ArticleDiplomats puzzled by flip-flop
Western diplomats posted in New Delhi are puzzled. Several months ago, embassies of countries of the European Union received an invitation from the Gujarat government asking them to send...
View Article‘Special’, different
An estimated 1581 netas could soon be lining up ~ but not for the privileged treatment to which they deem themselves entitled: instead they will be awaiting disposal of criminal cases against them....
View ArticleBanking on climate
Exactly two years after the Paris conference on climate change, the current round convened at the behest of the French President, Immanuel Macron, will be noted for the signal effort to curb fossil...
View ArticleTagore and Man~I
When man is honoured for his excellence his ascent is assured. To Rabindranath Tagore, man is more than his thoughts and actions. The poet envisioned man in an altogether different fashion because he...
View ArticleRe-thinking development
Given massive social divisions and the disruptions from technology, what is the new development model? As the Commission for Global Economic Transformation, co-chaired by Nobel Laureates Joseph...
View ArticleArt in touch with nature
Old-timers in Indore remember how the cultural life of their city and in fact a much larger surrounding region was enriched for decades by the threesome of Kumar Gandharva, the famous musician, Rahul...
View ArticleWTO fizzle
The biennial conclave of the World Trade Organization in Buenos Aires has followed the distressing course of serial stalemates. Wednesday’s fizzle, therefore, was hardly surprising. Indeed, the...
View ArticleHardly helpful
It may have been sheer coincidence, but coming soon after a Bench of the Supreme Court reaffirmed a point earlier made by the Law Commission that the exorbitant fees charged by top lawyers resulted in...
View ArticleTagore and Man~II
For a reawakening of consciousness and empathy, the realisation of man in terms of wholeness is now obligatory. This demands the realisation of the Infinite. Let the spirit of the Infinite become a...
View Article‘Indian cities reeling under pressure’
Diplomat-turned-politician Hardeep Singh Puri, who was inducted into the Union Council of Ministers in September, has had a distinguished career and brings his rich experience to the Ministry of...
View ArticleWhat Alabama win might mean
Alabama is a place with an awful lot of history. It’s known as a state that was at the centre of the slave trade, which fought a bloody civil war to try and keep hold of it, and even when it was gone,...
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