Tuesday, Jun 18, 2019 | Last Update : 08:10 AM IST
Mohan Guruswamy
Why an ABM system for Delhi alone?
The issue of vulnerability to a decapitating attack on the national leadership has been the subject of much discussion
12 Jun 2019 1:03 AM
How to get the stalled lane moving?
A vast section of India is being left behind even as India races to become a major global economy.
30 May 2019 12:07 AM
The effects of Modi thwarting a Dalai-Xi meet
India does have a role to play in Tibet, and a truly autonomous Tibet might well be in India’s interests and enhance its security.
27 May 2019 12:43 AM
91st Amendment: Impediment to good governance?
In Jawaharlal Nehru’s first Cabinet there was only one minister for food and agriculture.
22 May 2019 1:27 AM
Chinese lesson: Paying a price for uprightness
Hai Rui himself was however known primarily as a Neo-Confucian and never discussed Islam in his Confucian works.
06 May 2019 4:36 AM
Belt & Road: What are China’s real intentions?
Much is being made about the overland link between China and Europe by rail and road links.
03 May 2019 7:05 AM
Why do some fare so much better than others?
The study examined the distance of Bihar and UP on most major parameters from the average and the best.
01 May 2019 2:28 AM
The looking glass war in the Himalayas
The plan to install a snooping device, a veritable looking glass to peer into the Chinese nuclear grounds.
19 Apr 2019 2:12 AM
Chandra Shekhar: A most civilised man
Chandra Shekhar’s talents, abilities, passion and razor-sharp intellect put him head and shoulders above the rest.
08 Apr 2019 12:15 AM
Why didn’t Modi, as PM, release Henderson Brooks Report on ’62?
A tangled web of inability to understand security issues, prevarication, bureaucratic intrigue, political indecision, all-pervasive corruption.
03 Apr 2019 1:41 AM
It’s time to rescue the chickens!
In many Central European folk tales, the devil is believed to flee at the first crowing of a cock.
01 Apr 2019 12:21 AM
After Balakot: India-Pak ties and nuclear bombast
Politicians on both sides of the border are prone to loose talk and nuclear sabre-rattling is part of their lexicon.
27 Mar 2019 1:40 AM
A celebration of democracy: For whom, and how?
The lack of intelligent and sensible debate in Parliament portends bad days for our democracy.
20 Mar 2019 12:48 AM
India can’t turn off Indus water flow to Pak
The Indus river system has a total drainage area exceeding 11,165,000 sq km
23 Feb 2019 12:49 AM
Did US sucker China and India into 1962 war?
The US was keen to use Tibet to open up another front against China.
13 Feb 2019 3:09 AM
On secularism, conversion & nature of religion
The acceptance of democracy as a way of life implies that we have accepted that we hold certain rights to be inalienable.
07 Feb 2019 12:31 AM
2019 seems fraught with possibilities
So far Mr Modi has not allowed them to define who he really is.
02 Feb 2019 1:32 AM
Can India afford to leave Bihar behind?
India has grown at an average rate of over 7 per cent since 2000.
26 Dec 2018 6:32 AM
Gandhi & Mandela: Legends of a different kind
Nelson Mandela was the founder of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), the military arm of the African National Congress.
14 Dec 2018 12:10 AM
Road to 2019 is fraught with possibilities
Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kamal Nath have largely been confined within their regions and limitations.
06 Dec 2018 6:21 AM
Columns
There are problems, of course, some of them unstated, some overstated.
The problem with this demand is that it is the craving of the injured ego as well as injured bodies of the doctors on strike.
BJP rebel Shatrughan Sinha, who joined the Congress shortly before the Lok Sabha elections, is said to be miffed with his new party.
A sensible policy would be to have talks on our terms and agenda at a time of our choosing.