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The heat generated in the media on climate change issues has been put off by a cold winter. However, RK Pachauri of The Energy Research Institute, the leading climate change expert has suffered some burns. Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli examine...

A family enterprise

Rahul Gandhi has indicated that he would like to change the power equations, that he would like to ‘open up’ the Congress to new talent. But a majority of the ‘young’ MPs who have emerged as the party’s next line of leaders are children of prominent Congressmen. Sagarika Ghose examines...

Left hand drive

The new epidemic

The mishandling of the Telangana issue by the UPA has sparked off many fresh statehood demands. All this can affect our federal structure, writes Sitaram Yechury.

Columns

Conversation with God on success

Chetan Bhagat had doubts whether he should use his (and his characters’) conversation with God in his book One Night @t the Call Center. The reason: His readers may or may not take it favourably. Anyway, he used it (all about success in life), and this is how I look at it:

OffTrack

Play it again, Shyam

The difficulty of spotting a ‘common guy’ in the video seems to reflect how we undervalue the non-celebrity these days, writes Rajiv Arora.

Armistice Day Commemoration

Comments

The smack is back

This should be quite a hit with exasperated parents — smacking can help discipline children if done the right way, according to a new US bestseller NurtureShock.

Letters to the Editor

Mumbaikars must refuse to be held to ransom by the Senas

With reference to Samar Halarnkar’s article We are all Shah Rukh (Maha Bharat, February 4), the Shiv Sena has gone too far and too wrong on the issue of migration of north Indians into Maharashtra.

Interviews

Interview Sharad Pawar

It wasn’t a state secret that I’d call on Thackeray

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s meeting with Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Sunday has acquired political undertones. In an exclusive interview, Pawar tells Sujata Anandan not to read any meaning into it.