Nitin Gadkari’s book, Vikas ke Path, released
“Gadkari shows how politics can be an instrument for social and economic transformation”
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
THE irony of the Indian IT sector is best illustrated by The Financial Times, in a descriptive reportage which said the new draft telecom policy was announced by the Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on a day the CBI raided the residence and offices of a forme
The open letter by a group of 14 eminent citizens to the United Progressive Alliance government
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In all humility and due apology I dare say that the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s recent verdict ordering dismantling tribals’ own self-defence movement, with little but much needed aid of the Chhattisgarh State Government, is flawed. The Hon’ble Supreme Court
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Is India growth story in doledrums ?
Ficci underlines slowdown fears
By Ravi Shanker Kapoor
In its recently released September report, ‘Economy Watch,’ the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (Ficci) has once again underscored the
India’s foreign policy dilemma
By MV Kamath
Of late three issues have suddenly come out in the open: US-Pakistan ties, US-India ties and Sino-Indian ties. All three are plainly inter-related and have become more inseparable than ever. To start with
When our good friend and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was fasting in Ahmedabad, some of us far away in Pune were going through a book published in 1996, that is, fifteen years ago, which had predicted with almost pinpoint accuracy the course of ev
The new energy war with oil as weapon
By Dr R Balashankar
The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World, Daniel Yergin, Allen Lane, Penguin Books Ltd, Pp 804 (HB), £ 30.00
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Masters and savage beasts of Lashkar
By MV Kamath
Storming The World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba; Stephen Tankel; Hachette India; Pp 352, Rs 550.00
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Japan in need of love lessons
By Dr Vaidehi Nathan
Lovesick Japan: Sex, Marriage, Romance, Law, Mark D West, Cornell University Press, Pp 259 (HB), $29.95
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The dark secrets of drug menace
By Dr Vaidehi Nathan
Drugs and Drug Policy; What Everyone Needs to Know, Mark AR Kleiman, Jonathan P Caulkins and Angela Hawken, Oxford University Press, Pp 234 (PB), $16.95
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The visual and beyond: Picture and image
By Dr Vaidehi Nathan
An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body, Hans Belting translated by Thomas Dunlap, Princeton University Press, Pp 207 (HB), $ 39.95
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A helpbook on rich Naga culture
ABC of Naga Culture and Civilization: A Resource Book, Nandita Haksar, Chicken Neck, Pp 263, Rs 1250.00
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In this compilation of articles by the author, one gets the impression that he is pro-separatist as he admits in the preface itself, after expounding on his various visits to Jammu & Kashmir
Six crore for furnishing President’s car, Rs 32 for aam aadmi per day It been rightly said that man is a ‘social animal’. If we remove this word ‘social’ then man is just an animal who is just bothered only about himself and nobody else. In a country whe
Mangal Pandey is remembered as the first freedom fighter and martyr who woke up the Indian masses to fight for the nation. He gave a sparkle to the First War of Indian Independence. But the British termed it as the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 as it was a mass re