Agent Provocateur

And while St Peter's thieves debate... ( ELP, Works, Vol 1 ) S o, IPL is not only about adrenaline-pumping cricket! Here are some stati...

Of probity and provincialism Nobody who is caught with his hand in the till ever admits to his guilt till proven guilty in a court of law; a...

Reflections on Poila Boishakh , 1417. Prayer Twice a year Anandabazar Patrika dutifully publishes a list of restaurants planning to serve a...

The following is the text of my speech at the India-China Development Forum in Beijing on March 30, 2010: Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen...

Unless your foot soldiers are good, you can't win the war on Red terror. The Uttar Pradesh Government has taken an extraordinary step to...

We should be resolute in exterminating Maoists to the last cadre. India has to win this war for the sake of liberty and democracy. The react...

A Bihar court on April 7 sentenced to death 16 of 26 convicted persons in the Lakshmanpur-Bathe carnage in Jehanabad district in which 61 pe...

Pavan K Varma, in conversation with Kanchan Gupta, says the local must prevail over the foreign My first encounter with Pavan K Varma, or r...

Media spattered and bruised NaMo exposes p-sec fraud The signs of desperation are showing. After failing to bring him down despite 8 years o...

How will Congress react if push comes to shove? Nearly five years after the Cabinet Committee on Security cleared what was then billed as a ...

Mockery of America's alleged war on terror So much for justice and so much for America's alleged war on terror! In its wisdom, the U...