Pak-India ties: One step forward, two steps backward

So far, almost every positive development in terms of the bilateral ties has been overtaken by innate hostility that is often driven by popular sentiments. When Pakistan and India agreed to......

The Congress needs to hang its head in shame!

The Congress has ruled India for 54 of the last 67 years; that it took the party over six decades to come up with bills that provide citizens their basic needs is a shame, not a moment of triumph,......

The speech the PM should have given

Amberish Kathewad Diwanji tweaks the prime minister's Red Fort speech. My Dear fellow citizens, sisters and brothers and dear children, I greet you on the nation’s 67th Independence Day. It......

UPA's 100 days and a 100 lies later...

Anupam Trivedi, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is moderator of the forum www.lkadvani.in I wanted to write this piece on August 15. But I did not do so, realising that the country was on......

Wheat Blast at India's doorsteps, govt says no need to panic

Centre could ban wheat import from Bangladesh, apart from restricting cultivation in West Bengal and Assam On an average, every Indian eats about four kilos of wheat every month. But India’s......

'Wish prices were kept low for the common man'

For Ashok Upadhyay, a taxi driver from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, who makes his living in Mumbai, there are concerns more pressing than the Budget. Namely, he says, prices for even basic......

The time bomb in our financial system

'We view them as time bombs, both, for the parties that deal in them and the economic system. In our view derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now......

Developing tastes

A few months ago in Punjab, as grain farmers set fire to harvested rice fields to clear their land, Jagroop Singh spent the afternoon reflecting on his good fortune farming cows. Singh, a tall Sikh......

'Tendulkar has lost his fighting abilities'

Readers' responses toThe naked and the dead feature: It is SPOT ON.I feel we r saying this day only because of our seniors (namely Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman).Please make no......