India Together Your quake, my insecurity
Our widely held perceptions on 'threats' are producing unquestioned annual increases in the defence budget. But, asks
DILIP D'SOUZA, what could be a greater danger than your own home crumbling because it was built on sand and greased palms?
Indian Express JP: An unlikely hero What was common between the JP movement and the Emergency was the fact that they both failed. Both exposed the deficiencies of the rulers and the
ruled, writes KULDIP NAYAR
The Economist A fair vote, despite a few inkspots
Afghanistan’s historic presidential election seems to have been fairly successful, despite threats of violent disruption—and despite most of President Hamid Karzai’s rivals having threatened a boycott over allegations of multiple voting
Asia
Times Exposing a Maharashtra legend
Despite being met with violence and national outcry in the wake of its India release,
Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India by James W Laine
is critical landmark in academic historiography. The author exposes the hypocrisies that come in the name of Hindu tolerance, transcending the typical academic history
book, writes PIYUSH MATHUR
Water and river management
in South Asia Given China's disastrous environmental record, India should join an Asian alliance to pressure its big neighbour into behaving more responsibly, says
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