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| The state after terror |
| In a crisis, citizens just need to feel that the state is doing its best |
| If one of the objectives of terrorism is to throw the state into some disarray, it is disquieting to see the ease with which it succeeds. While society at large has, tenuously, kept calm, in the wake of the recent terror attacks (though this calm sho... |
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| Damage control |
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Sir ? ?Army first step in gender equality? (July 11) is not as pathbreaking as it seems. In 2004, t ... |
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| End of a promise |
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Sir ? A day after the Agni III ballistic missile plunged into the Bay of Bengal without hitting its ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir ? Any death is sad, including that of a farmer, and a death cannot be suppressed behind sanitiz ... |
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| HISTORY AS BUNK |
| Indians have an obsession with anniversaries. The current one high on the list of political priorities is the celebration of ...|
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| One of the great drawbacks to
self-centred passions is that they afford so little variety in life. The man who
loves only himself cannot, it is true, be accused of promiscuity in his affections,
but he is bound in the end to suffer intolerable boredom from the inevitable sameness
of the objection of his devotion. ? BERTRAND RUSSELL |
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| The
Talkative Indian |
| It’s talk time, folks. Switch on the radio and you’ll hear the breathless prattle of a chatty radio jockey. Channel... |
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