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Indian hockey can elect someone other than Gill as IHF President and try to change its fortune. But what's guarantee that Aiyar will not give the new chief freedom to kill, shoot and destroy? K Arumugam tells us.

At best, Subhash Ghisingh had become redundant to the aspirations of the people of Darjeeling and its adjoining Dooar areas of northern West Bengal, writes Mahendra P Lama.

All that we need from the N-deal is adequate quantities of uranium ore. However, it is unlikely we will get that through the deal, writes Ashok Parthasarathi.

Neither is excellence an exclusively urban paradigm nor is it only a virtue to be cultivated only in activities related to the rich and the empowered, writes Abhishek Singhvi.

It is difficult to understand why nay-sayers want to foreclose India’s nuclear options, even before the door opens, writes Nilova Roy Chaudhury.

The Delhi Police, currently engaged in locking the entry points in many colonies in the city all in the name of providing security, writes Mrinal Pande.

It’s time the politicians of Pakistan surprise the people of Pakistan by showing that they can govern — even by coalition, writes Amit Baruah.

Credit for moderation in Saudi Arabia must go to King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz who has gone where most other Islamic rulers fear to tread in being accommodative, writes Lalita Panicker.

Dalai Lama is truly a unique apostle of peace in an era of strife and hegemony, writes Abhishek Singhvi.

It was a spell-binding experience to watch women and men walking towards their point of convergence from four corners and reclaiming their freedom, writes Kanchi Kohli.

It’s the admission into an IIM that is the defining value creator and not the value added in the course itself, writes B Narayanaswamy.

With the US in poll mode, presidential hopefuls should consider the damage done to American power and image globally, writes Amit Baruah.

The time is now propitious for a new and bold approach to India’s border dispute with China that is inextricably linked with the Tibetan issue, writes Mahesh Jethmalani.

Parallels between Beijing 2008 and Berlin 1936 are hard to miss. Once again the world is taking the shortsighted view and is being blind to the suppression of Tibetans, writes Seema Goswami.