A frozen zoo may be the new challenge for Akhilesh Yadav. Let's hope that the idea doesn't thaw out soon.
What can be done between India and Pakistan that will allow both to go down a pathway that could lead, eventually, to a final settlement of the tricky issues. The obvious answer is economics.
To make the judiciary accountable, there must be a transparent system of appointing judges. Satya Prakash writes.
In India, there is distrust between society and the State and among different limbs of the State. We could do with the healing touch of the Dalai Lama. Gopalkrishna Gandhi writes.
We might wake up one fine day after having fired off an editorial about West Bengal and find Didi herself at our doorstep. It’s enough to make us head for the hills. But the very prospect has led us to try and mend our ways.
There should be no surprises that Britain is closing its doors to workers from India or the rest of the world. Since it joined the European Union, Britain has continuously narrowed the scope for Indian immigration.
When Prakash Karat speaks of the Left being an alternative to the NDA and UPA, I can only hope that he has suddenly developed a sense of self-deprecatory humour.
Chanakya writes.
The express story relies on slender, if not impro-bable, detail. How can the movement of two units, totalling at the most 1,400 soldiers, presage a coup?
Karan Thapar writes.
Before Bob Biswas became famous in Kahaani as the insurance agent you would never suspect of being a contract killer, he was just another ordinary guy in the neighbourhood, living in a two-room tubelight-lit place with his wife and two kids probably called Bapon and Mou. Indrajit Hazra writes.
Praise be unto Him, we've been receiving lots of questions from loyal readers, all of whom are very interested in the policies we will implement after the cowardly Nato infidels flee Afghanistan. Manas Chakravarty writes.
The bounty on Hafiz Saeed's head has upped the stakes between the US and Pakistan. If the ISI refuses to bring Saeed to justice, it will be one more blow to their relationship.
Bruce Riedel writes.
India can be choosy about foreign capital and insist that investors go by the book.
The US says that the pelf is tied to proof leading to Hafiz Mohammed Saeed's arrest, hoping a greedy ISI handler will oblige. Will that be enough for the Lahore court that freed Saeed?
Anirudh Bhattacharyya writes.
Enforcement of standards and informed consumer choice work better than bans. Pratik Kanjilal writes.
Britons abroad call their embassies to check for eating out tips and directions. Our diplomats would cut us dead.