Sunil Sharan
AMERICA has been outsourcing software development to India for years, but now it seems to want to outsource ...
Updated 26 Dec, 2013 08:12pm
THE Indian army, once hailed for its professionalism, is fast losing its sheen. Previous chiefs must be turning in...
Published 01 Oct, 2013 07:04am
RAPE stalks the land. India rages against it. Delhi, that genteel city of Ghalib, has now been transformed into the...
Published 06 May, 2013 08:54am
ONCE in a blue moon, an Indian bureaucrat gets it right. R.V. Shahi, the union power secretary in 2003, took on a backwater job that few wanted, and resurrected the country’s electricity sector.
Published 18 Mar, 2013 12:15am
HANG me publicly if I am found guilty, implored Gujarat’s chief minister, Narendra Modi. He who has incessantly maintained that the state’s 2002 riots were a mere natural reaction, man conforming to the laws of physics so to speak, was now suddenly seized
Published 01 Oct, 2012 12:20am
ASCENSION to India’s presidency must be bittersweet for former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. For decades he has craved the elusive sceptre of prime minister. Settling ultimately for the cocoon of the
Published 17 Jul, 2012 03:21am
THE shale gas revolution is upending global energy, and could hold the promise of alleviating South Asia’s energy woes. But so mired is the region in strife, scams and vested interests, that it is letting a wondrous gift slip by.
Published 26 Jun, 2012 12:20am
COUP-MAKER, spy, traitor, rampaging bull. Principled, steadfast, pathbreaker, rebel with a cause. Does India’s army chief, V.K. Singh, have one persona, or does he suffer from schizophrenia?
Published 06 Apr, 2012 10:14pm
ENGLAND’S Kevin Pietersen averaged 11 runs in the recent Test series against Pakistan, but still wanted to play in this year’s IPL (Indian Premier League).
Published 26 Feb, 2012 11:30pm
CELEBRATED Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz described how the `fog of war` causes facts to be fudged. Indian army chief Gen V.K.
Published 11 Jan, 2012 11:00pm
THIS summer of India’s discontent not only shook the nation, it also dealt a body blow to its most powerful politician, Sonia Gandhi. In August, Gandhi was whisked away to the US, ostensibly
Published 16 Nov, 2011 08:46pm
COME hell or high water, Indian and Pakistani leaders continually nose-thumb one another. Each snub is met with a...
Published 04 Sep, 2010 12:00am
WHAT was supposed to be a breakthrough meeting between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan last month...
Published 03 Aug, 2010 12:00am
A WAVE of righteous indignation sweeps the West with every alleged act of terror, while quotidian civilian ...
Published 14 Jun, 2010 12:00am
CLIMATE change was the purported theme of the recent summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation...
Published 15 May, 2010 12:00am
MUST India and Pakistan always be polar opposites, the yin and yang of the world? As Pakistan rediscovers the merits...
Published 29 Apr, 2010 12:00am
INDIA`S home minister, P. Chidambaram, publicly promised “swift and decisive action” against Pakistan on the very ...
Published 05 Apr, 2010 12:00am
Somewhere in Mumbai lives a man 86 years old, ailing. Renowned, not rich. His name is Dilip Kumar, né Yusuf Khan,...
Published 28 Mar, 2010 12:00am
Narendra Modi, chief minister of India`s Gujarat state, gestures at a polling booth in Ahmedabad. — Photo by Reuters...
Published 09 Feb, 2010 12:00am
FOR long-term peace to emerge in South Asia, India and Pakistan must collaborate, not in Kashmir initially, but in a...
Published 18 Jan, 2010 12:00am
