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S Desai: Lessons from 2008
2008 has told us that ups and downs are part of life and that being caught up in the intensity of a moment can blind us to its eventual transience. That is our biggest learning from this unfortunate year.
Lessons from 2008: Ups & downs are part of life
2008 has told us that ups and downs are part of life and that being caught up in the intensity of a moment can blind us to its eventual transience. That is our biggest learning from this unfortunate year.
Swapan Dasgupta: There's a clash, don't deny it
Before the "public intellectual" became fashionable, academia nurtured a deep abhorrence of anything "popular".
M J Akbar: Forget others, can we find peace with ourselves?
The only good thing about 2008 is that it is over. What remains intriguing is the optimism with which we wish peace in a new year when there is none within view.
SA Aiyar: 26/11 a buying opportunity, not economic disaster
Foreign portfolio investors have adopted Nathan Rothschild's maxim that the best time to buy shares is when blood runs in the streets.
Forget others, can we find peace with ourselves?
The only good thing about 2008 is that it is over. What remains intriguing is the optimism with which we wish peace in a new year when there is none within view.
There's a clash, don't deny it
Before the "public intellectual" became fashionable, academia nurtured a deep abhorrence of anything "popular".
26/11: Buying opportunity, not economic disaster
Foreign portfolio investors have adopted Nathan Rothschild's maxim that the best time to buy shares is when blood runs in the streets.
S A Aiyar: IPI gas pipeline, RIP
The Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline has been discussed for almost a decade, with its proponents arguing that it will promote our energy security. After 26/11, the project is dead.
M J Akbar: How a mouse in Pakistan became its Man of the Year
If it's Gandhian, it must have a moral. There is one. A single alphabet separates 'shoe' and 'shot'. If al-Zaidi had aimed a bullet, he would have been vilified and his country could have been burdened with another decade of war and misery.
Shobhaa De: Let's fight the enemy within
Thirty days later, do we have credible answers as to what really happened - forget why it did? Who did it? No.
Let's fight the enemy within
Thirty days later, do we have credible answers as to what really happened - forget why it did? Who did it? No.
Thou shalt rise again
We can't afford to ignore the homegrown shields to the jihadis. What Antulay said was a repeat of what Zardari said in Islamabad.
S Dasgupta: Let's play hardball with Pakistan
Collectors of esoteric cricketing trivia may be aware of a letter published in The Times, London, on July 5, 1932. Written by O H T Dudley, a gentleman who spent 25 years...
M J Akbar: Antulay the Simi Garewal of Indian politics
Garewal saw a Pakistani flag fluttering on every Muslim housetop in Mumbai. Antulay sees a vote beyond every Muslim doorstep.
S A Aiyar: The good, the bad and the ugly
How hard will India’s economic growth be hit by the global financial crisis and recession? Widely varying forecasts for the next financial year, 2009-10 have been made by three leading economists.
The terrorist at my table
Last Sunday, I wrote about the weddings which extended our global family. Last Wednesday, global terrorism attacked the last of the multiple celebrations.
Slumdog Oscar-aire
It is about a slum kid who stumbles into the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire (Kaun Banega Crorepati) and manages to answer all questions to win the big prize.
Smoke rings
Thanks to health minister Ramadoss, informal circles, or rings, of smokers are changing the social topography of the nation.
Time to improve relations between police & minorities
As the country copes with the aftermath of the horrors of Mumbai, the hard work of reconstruction, of rebuilding - of reimagining our country-has begun.
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