The Hindu
Google and our digital future »
Google's hopes of creating the world's largest digital library remain uncertain after a New York district court declared [...]
Economic Times
BSF arrest a positive »
The arrest of a BSF commandant for the killing of a 16-year-old schoolboy in Srinagar last month, is a [...]
Impending water shortage »
A severe water shortage is in the offing across the sub-continent, with water tables falling and taps [...]
Tax amnesty by any name »
The Budget proposal to allow those who have been raided by the income-tax department to knock at the [...]
Mint
A million Helens now »
After many twists and turns, the Women’s Reservation Bill was passed on Tuesday in the Rajya Sabha. Its merits (or demerits) are now beside the point, [Read More]
Hindustan Times
A surge from New Delhi »
An overly simple dichotomy dominates the present debate over India’s policy towards [...]
Lennon Unlimited »
What’s it about rock widows that makes us dislike them so much? After all, when other [...]
With strong reservations »
Former Prime Minster Atal Behari Vajpayee once described reservations as a “crutch”, [...]
Times of India
Busting Urban Legends »
France was only 55 per cent urban in the 1940s; so were large parts of Europe. Today, France, Italy and Spain, not to mention Germany and Scandinavia, are only 2-3 per cent rural. This is an indication of their prosperity. Latin America has just driven in to the smart set. [Read More]
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Indian Express
Different Avatars
As the Academy counts down the last minutes to the Oscars, we may ponder the ideological battleground that a single film, touted as the harbinger of a new age in film technology and feared as another “popcorn” epic, has opened up since its release last December. James Cameron, certainly, had a definable thematic framework for Avatar, the [...]
Hot potatoes
It is not just the irony. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh had recently over-ruled the clearance by his ministry’s Genetic Engineering Approval Committee for the cultivation of Bt brinjal, thereby placing an indefinite moratorium on this genetically modified vegetable. But the Philippines, considered a pioneer in food research, have chosen to [...]
Upwardly mobile
Bundelkhand, the mute and impoverished piece of land splayed across Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is now the site for an interesting experiment in governance. The National Informatics Centre in Jhansi, along with the district administration, has devised a nifty way to track public services — citizens can simply call or text their complaints [...]
Cause vs means
India’s greatest internal security threat, to quote Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has only grown graver. This newspaper has long advocated combating what is in essence an undemocratic, criminal force by summoning enough political will. Mumblings about “root causes”, which need to be independently tackled, need to be disentangled from this [...]
Lead the way
The new Lok Sabha, barely a year into its term, has already been marred by the worst kind of partisanship and lack of imaginative engagement. The opposition banded together to disrupt proceedings in both Houses of Parliament, forcing two adjournments by afternoon. They demanded a rollback of the recently announced hike in petrol and diesel rates. [...]
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