Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:26 PM IST

Columnists

S Gurumurthy

The seculars’ poster boy

S GurumurthySyed Sohrabuddin predictably emerged at the national level as the poster boy of secularism.
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B G Verghese

Lies, damn lies and statistics

B G VergheseThe SIT report on Zakia Jafri’s charge of Modi’s culpability falls into the category of clumsily contrived “damn lies”.
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V Sudarshan

Spy versus spy

V SudarshanPakistani intelligence establishment gets a sense of the jittery way our analysts pass on spurious information.
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Ravi Shankar Etteth

The last laugh

Ravi Shankar EttethThe cartoonist is a sniper who shoots at social and political hypocrisy; with vinegar or vitriol.
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Shankkar Aiyar

The Indian Parody League

Shankkar AiyarLower growth will dismantle the Robin Hood model of economics that the UPA has practised.
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T J S George

First years were glorious

T J S GeorgeA Parliament that has been reduced to an amoral level can have no claim on the legacy of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Shampa Dhar-Kamath

One of those phrases

Shampa Dhar-Kamath‘Hangunder’ works for people who are usually the worse for drink, but are having a rare good morning.
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S Gurumurthy

The faith of a fighter

S GurumurthyFor Ramnath Goenka, the fight against the corrupt and the faith in God to help him to fight went hand-in-hand.
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V Sudarshan

Which way to Hillary's heart?

V SudarshanOne thing that can be said with certainty on Clinton’s visit is that it went off much smoother than her visit to China.
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Shankkar Aiyar

Why not Pranab for PM?

Shankkar AiyarThe buzz in Delhi and many parts of India is that Pranab is the front-runner for the post of the first citizen.
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Ravi Shankar Etteth

Death by assassination

Ravi Shankar Ettethin History, there’s a difference between murder and assassination; murder, however foul, is banal.
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Shampa Dhar-Kamath

Udderly motherly dilemma

Shampa Dhar-KamathThe photo on the cover of Time’s latest issue is of an attractive young mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son.
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Editorials

The New Indian Express

Ambivalence on Lokpal

The party’s hypocritical ambivalence has now left it exposed to Team Anna’s charge of complicity with the ruling party.
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The New Indian Express

A dubious move to defang EC

Though the powers exercised by EC are executive in nature they have the sanction of law as courts have upheld them.
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The New Indian Express

Protection of elephants

Awareness about saving the elephant must be raised among people who are fearful of their ‘invasion’ of farming lands.
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The New Indian Express

Whitewash over black money

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had promised to table a white paper on black money.
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Op-Ed

S Vaidhyasubramaniam

Capitation fee syndrome

The spectacular listing of Facebook on NYSE failed to lift the gloomy spirits of the equity market.
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Raj Mohan Tella

Politics and cinema

Both have a star cast and audience; and both need a strong screenplay to capture attention.
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Prakash Singh

Anti-Maoist strategy flaws

About two years ago, the government embarked on an ambitious campaign to vanquish the armed strength of the Maoists.
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Arun Nehru

BJP sans high command

BJP presidents have little control or authority and can be used by one faction or another.
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Time Out

S Raghunath

'Swim like a fish in 14 days'

With the sweltering summer I dearly wished that I could plunge with gay abandon into an icy cool pool.
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P Varadarajan

Secret behind weight reduction

I have always wondered why consumers take the bait when products do ‘interesting’ and over-the-top advertising.
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C Divakaran

Reminding Sir CP of July 1947

This story is 50 years old, I was a college student and the hero, Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer, diwan of Travancore state.
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S Ganapathisubramanian

Polls campaign then and now

It was 1977, I was 17 and my father, being a Central government servant, could not evince any interest in politics.
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