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Sitaram Yechury

The conscience keeper

Through both his reel and real works, Balraj Sahni helped uplift people who were exploited. He also played a pivotal role in the establishment of socialism. Sitaram Yechury writes.

Success means many wonderful, positive things. It means personal prosperity, a fine home, vacations, travel, new things, financial security and giving your children maximum advantages. David J Schwartz writes.

Live an effortless life

Spiritual way to change

Nature of spiritual laws

N Madhavan

Google overload badly needs a fix

I confess I am confused. What exactly is Google supposed to do?

Buffett on Twitter shows its rising significance

Five rules for digital wisdom

It is time to talk social media FIRs

Karan Thapar

A very sharif Nawaz

The first thing that strikes you about Nawaz Sharif is his smile. It’s big and broad and seems to cover his large face. And when he smiles his eyes light up. Karan Thapar writes.

A vote of real note

Modi’s Caesar complex

The eyes have it

Indrajit Hazra

India’s coolest town

The moment you get out of Gauhati airport, you hear a bunch of people announcing ‘Schlong. Schlong’. The road to the capital of Meghalaya is paved with good intentions and little else. Indrajit Hazra writes.

The Art of Lying

The great dictation

Kolkata kills Bengal

Pradeep Magazine

Entire Indian cricket establishment is compromised

The ticking time-bomb that the Indian T20 league was, has finally exploded to tear to smithereens the facade of well-being the `paid servants' of the Board have been trying to build for Indian cricket for the last few years. Pradeep Magazine writes.

Conflict of interest, yet nobody cares

Line between IPL and Test cricket getting blurred

For Indian board, 'tamasha' comes before serious cricket

Manas Chakravarty

It’s over and doubt

Bunny: It’s a lovely evening here at the Wankhede stadium, the bookies are chirping in the stands, the money launderers are singing and the home side is batting. Baja: This is an absolutely critical over, the odds are 3 to 1 we get 15 runs off it. Manas Chakravarty writes.

Buy now, pay later

The idli incursion

From trust to dust

Sanchita Sharma

Germs are often a phone call away

Having often wondered whether the mixed nuts served at bars and restaurants are coated with wasabi or fungi, I decided to read up on the risks I was running each time I reached for communal masala peanuts. Sanchita Sharma reports.

Can you really resist suggestion?

Speaking out, for better or worse

The clean air act on your lungs and mind

Chanakya

Not in the stars for now

Nawaz Sharif pressed all the right buttons when he spoke about India while campaigning and especially when he had a microphone in front of him. A Pakistani leader who believes in peace with India does not do so for love of India. he believes the cost of hostility is too high a price to afford. Chanakya writes.

No legions in the region

Like a persistent rash

Oops, your slip is showing

Pankaj Vohra

Has Varun averted Gandhi vs Gandhi face-off in Amethi?

In what appears to be a well thought out exercise to reclaim the legacy of his father, BJP leader Feroze Varun Gandhi seems to be all set to move closer to Amethi which his father won in 1980. Pankaj Vohra writes.

Congress steals Mamata’s thunder by naming Pranab

A difficult road ahead

It's now or never

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

When a part of you dies

Court acquittals, in the 1984 or 2002 pogroms, belong to the realm of law. It is the conscience that raises difficult questions that need to be answered, writes Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

A patch of blue sky

No beat of the tom-tom

The creativity wallahs

Anirudh Bhattacharyya

All cheques and balance

If the world of publishing had a colour code, that probably switched from grey to brown this week. Brown as in Dan Brown, who has conjured up yet another codes and conspiracies concoction with Inferno. Anirudh Bhattacharyya writes.

Tripping on its own feet

Whistling in the dark

Being knotty's not nice

Rajdeep Sardesai

Bowling a dot ball

Like Imran, many Indian politicians believe that the sheer force of their personality will propel them to victory in the 2014 polls. They need to review their strategies, writes Rajdeep Sardesai.

Silence as a curse

An ‘Ajit’ joke falls flat

An inconvenient truth

Sujata Anandan

Cut from the same cloth

The Shiv Sena is being very bold and courageous in admitting that there are really no differences between the Congress and the BJP in terms of ideology.

Too slow to be steady

It's too soon to write him off

Bangles no bar

Barkha Dutt

Changing his stripes

Nawaz Sharif’s return to Pakistan brings hope that a genuine democracy might take root and bring order back to a country torn by extremism and violence. Barkha Dutt writes.

Will we run again?

Hobbled by inertia

We don’t care enough

Samar Halarnkar

Let us place hope first

The government's biggest election gamble faces misplaced criticism. It's not just about food but how it should reach the plates of the poor. Samar Halarnkar writes.

India’s bare branches

The Ides of May

The PM's last stand

Sagarika Ghose

The anti-neta neta

By engaging with the politics of the street and communicating with the people directly, the Aam Aadmi Party is doing what mainstream politicians have forgotten to do, writes Sagarika Ghose.

Mr Fixit vs Mr Dreamer

Our Keystone Cops

Closing the mind

Shivani Singh

With laws and policing, need better rehab for rape victims

Writing about how crime rates in Britain continued to fall despite the economic slump and high youth unemployment, The Economist magazine last month was positive about the fact that rape was bucking the trend. Shivani Singh writes.

To know its ‘outsiders’ better, Delhi must engage with them

Delhi can’t outlive the river it is so desperate to choke

Parents can’t take on private schools, govts must step in

Ramachandra Guha

Degrees of desperation

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.

What a tragic fall

India remains a work in progress

Terminal damage

Harsh Mander

Crumbs on the plate

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.

An unfinished battle

Get the basics right

No talisman anymore

Namita Bhandare

Our blood pressure’s rising

If your doctor makes you wait for no reason, it may be time to find another, writes Namita Bhandare.

The stage's virtually set

Revoke this 'creative licence'

It’s our system on trial

Khushwant Singh

Remembering Ruth

Last month my daughter told me that she had heard Ruth was very sick and not expected to last long. So it was not a shock to learn that she passed away on the 3rd of this month. Khushwant Singh reports.

Desi Meemokrasee

Life and death

Seth Zindabad

Farrukh Dhondy

Marmite Margaret

Maggie Thatcher's radical agenda that divided the United Kingdom was also the political revolution of lower middle-class England. Farrukh Dhondy writes.

No ticket to ride

Leaving office early

Friends with benefits

Abhijit Banerjee

It’s plane and simple

Private investment may not be the perfect solution to the problems our national airline faces. But, the public cannot be made to pay the high cost of public sector intervention, Abhijit Banerjee writes.

New day, new start

It’s time to get real

Not fired with logic

Ayesha Siddiqa

A fierce competition

The new generation of Pakistani leaders must provide new slogans and effectiveness in service delivery to young voters instead of reminding them of old injustices. Ayesha Siddiqa writes.

An inconvenient truth

Caught in a vortex

Inch by painful inch

Vir Sanghvi

Onto the next campaign

There are many questions about Modi’s future. In no mood to wait for answers, he’s ready with his battleplan to first conquer the BJP and then India, writes Vir Sanghvi.

The uncrowned king of Mumbai: Bal Thackeray

Setting the record straight

Counterpoint | Who’s Left? Who’s right?

Gautam Chikermane

Good restart but what took you so long, Dr Singh?

For an irrationally exuberant market yearning to look up, the politically-untenable legislative reforms proposals that climaxed after 40 months and changing partners may be good enough to deliver a 1,000-point Sensex return. Gautam Chikarmane writes.

Subsidies, politics, voters and taxpayers

Diesel price hike: bad politics, but good economics

Why now: the 4 compulsions behind our recent reforms surge

Amitava Sanyal

Travelling on the Sufi trail

These days anything goes in the name of Sufi music. A number of labels have made capital of this musical currency over the last decade. So much has been put out there in the market that it's become difficult to know what's Sufi and what's not. Amitava Sanyal writes.

The league of obscure composers

Getting to Bhojpur via Wasseypur

Jaidev gets the Sachal treatment

Aamir Khan

The Power of One

I believe in India. I believe in the people of India. I believe that each and every Indian loves his/her country. I believe that India is changing. I believe that India wants to change. Aamir Khan writes for HT.

Thirst in the land of malhaar

… towards a shared common good

The destroyer of all that is… good

Pratik Kanjilal

Bear the White House burden

As auxiliary verb, one-third of Obama’s slogan, ‘Yes we can.’ Also, one-third of scary hacker slogan, ‘Because you can.’ As noun, one-third of doom-laden phrase, ‘Can of worms.’ writes Pratik Kanjilal.

Kicking some of those filmi butts

Time to call a spade a spade

Beware of the glitter in sweets

Tithiya Sharma

Long road to justice

Even as we bask in the success of one man's fast unto death to rid our country of corruption, and we take to the streets in solidarity, there are few among us who have been waging a silent war against corrupt officials and a crumbling system without so much as a pat on the back. Tithiya Sharma writes.

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