While it may be very difficult to be rational in these trying circumstances, it is important that India does not lose the moral high ground it occupies now after the death of Sarabjit.
Shamshad Begum's voice is a significant part of the history of Indian cinema, not only for its inherent artistry, but also for reasons of its marginalisation from popular taste. Sanjay Srivastava writes.
Everyday the headlines scream at us, with alarming frequency, of yet another rape. The only way to protect our children is by giving them enough safe room to remain carefree.
Sagari Chhabra writes.
By converting a three-year bachelor's degree into a four-year programme, Delhi's premier centre of learning will only compromise a reputation that has taken generations to build. Ramachandra Guha writes.
The third cut in the short-term lending rate by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in four months comes bundled with widespread anticipation that these would eventually percolate down to the end borrower.
The tragic end of Sarabjit Singh in Lahore jail unplugged long-frozen memories of my journalistic encounters with the surreal and secretive world of cross-border spies. All former Indian spies share the same chilling tale of being left out in the cold. Ramesh Vinayak writes.
The Buddhist meditation of mindful breathing is an excellent way to attain concentration, happiness, spontaneous healing and spiritual insight. It is a unique process of becoming more and more aware of the existence in the present moment.
The nightmarish experience of Sarabjit Singh in his Lahore prison must make us spare a thought for life in prisons, our prisons. For a civilised nation, bilateral exchange of prisoners and discharge of undertrials against bonds should be essential and not optional.
Gopalkrishna Gandhi writes.
A United States State Department spokesperson recently remarked that her country has "no favourites" in the Pakistan elections that are due in exactly a week. That's hardly startling - as the US starts pulling up stakes from the Af-Pak region, they will have little at stake in who governs from Islamabad. Anirudh Bhattacharyya writes.
Samajwadi Party minister Azam Khan’s displeasure at being frisked at the Boston’s Logan International Airport seems quite misplaced. It is ludicrous to suggest that this was a conspiracy hatched by external affairs minister Salman Khurshid.
How can someone who had once created artworks for Jabakusum hair oil and Chelsa cigarette advertisements become India’s foremost filmmaker? By observing Jean Renoir it would seem, Ranjan Das Gupta writes.
The game changer in Pakistan’s elections could be the radical right and this will affect India adversely, writes Suhasini Haidar.
India can create history by giving its citizens the legal right to food, but for that Parliament needs to clear the air of uncertainty that surrounds the food security bill, writes
Harsh Mander.
The wounds of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots are still painful for those who lost their loved ones in them. Sajjan Kumar’s acquittal reopens the wounds victims, many of whom have got no recompense.
No one, but no one, seems to be coming out of this Parliament session smelling of roses so far. The government certainly has much to answer for given its unacceptable conduct over the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) report on the coal scam for which it has been pilloried by the Supreme Court.