Pioneer Cultivating Myanmar's junta
Sr Gen Than Shwe, Myanmar's head of State has every reason to be pleased with the outcome of his visit to India. But in extending its arms to him, India has betrayed is the cause of democracy in Myanmar which the junta has brutally suppressed, writes HIRANMAY KARLEKAR
India Together Free to express, not intrude
The beating of media persons at Kozhikode's airport had its fallout all over Kerala. It has pitted the media against the state government. Several issues concerning rights and privacy need to be discussed, including some of the media’s own failings says N P CHEKKUTTY
Asia Times Pakistan's Bhutan gambit worries Delhi
By sending a large delegation to Bhutan, Pakistan has left New Delhi - long suspicious of Islamabad's role in fueling anti-India activities in neighboring countries - with a sense of unease, particularly given India's success in making its border with Bhutan virtually insurgent-free. Washington's silence, too, is cause for concern. By RAMTANU MAITRA
Indian Express The future of an illusion
The BJP may be a victim of its own success. Culturally, it managed to shift India to the right and mitigated the very thing that gave it succour: a sense of Hindu victimhood. Can the BJP have a Hindu nationalism without Hindu communalism, asks PRATAP BHANU MEHTA
Outlook Denying democracy
A young minister from Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government can declare with aplomb that "democracy is the root of all evil" in front of the Washington cognoscenti and walk away without a trace of embarrassment., says SEEMA SIROHI
Unease grows in the hearts of common Indians as they watch a revered saint being arrested and humiliated, writes
SOUMYA SITARAMAN
No eulogy for Veerappan No tears will be shed
for the dead bandit, but we must address the causes that created such a monster, says
ARAVIND SITARAMAN More edits
