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The huge imports of gold, the traditional safe haven for Indians, particularly in rural India, against financial and personal calamities is creating a dangerous situation for the country.

Here and NowBy Sudhir Tailang


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Inder Malhotra
Inder Malhotra

To nobody’s surprise but rather earlier than expected the danger of a war on Iran that every ...

Shankari Sundararaman
Shankari Sundararaman

In January, the European Union (EU) removed visa bans on Burmese political leaders, including ...

Arun Nehru
Arun Nehru

Although the 2G octopus has surfaced again, its tentacles striking in all directions after the ...

Shankar Roychowdhury
Shankar Roychowdhury

The recent fire at the AMRI Hospital in Kolkata on December 8, 2011, claimed the lives of 98 ...

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

Mario Mifsud, a Maltese travel agent in Valletta, is a devout Roman Catholic who spent a couple ...

Nirmala Sitharaman
Nirmala Sitharaman

The higher the peak you climb the more peaks there are in front of you, stately and magnificent ...

S. Nihal Singh
S. Nihal Singh

The stalemate over Syria in the UN Security Council is leading the beleaguered country in one ...

Sidharth Bhatia
Sidharth Bhatia

How do you prove who you are? This is a question that can be troubling most times, but is ...

Interview of the Week

‘We are for Muslim quota, but proportionate to population’

He is the face Samajwadi Party is banking on. Akhilesh Yadav, son of Samajwadi Party supremo ...

‘Reforms in India have been disappointingly slow’

Lord Karan Bilimoria, the founder of the famous brand Cobra beer in the UK, is a prominent ...

The Age Debate


After a series of defeats, Team India badly need a new coach
The writer is a former Indian opener who played 40 Tests and scored more than 2,000 runs
The writer is a former India all-rounder and member of the country’s first World Cup-winning team

Mystic Mantra

Yogi Ashwini
Yogi Ashwini

If we look around us, we will find everyone asking the Divine all the time for something. Why ...

Dr Venganoor Balakrishnan
Dr Venganoor Balakrishnan

Indian tradition is built around myriad beliefs and practices. Our day-to-day life is influenced ...

Reporter's Diary

Docs on stage, CM in boat

Political return When filmmaker Muzaffar Ali decided to join the Congress last week, the development raised as many questions as guffaws.

Letters to Editor

It is heartening to read that cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s cancer is fully curable and unlikely to cause any harm to his career.

To nobody’s surprise but rather earlier than expected the danger of a war on Iran that every sensible person wants to avoid has escalated ominously during the last few days.

In January, the European Union (EU) removed visa bans on Burmese political leaders, including the President and top government officials.