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Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan
I believe in India. I believe in the people of India. I believe that each and every Indian loves his/her country. I believe that India is changing. I believe that India wants to change. Aamir Khan writes for HT.
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Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee
If you are a natural scientist, a publication the journal Science carries enormous prestige. In the last few years Science has started to publish a small number of articles in the social sciences on topics of special importance.
Amish
Amish
The makers of PK must realise that people are willing to worship anything because it might lead them to see the divine in everything, writes Amish.
Amitava Sanyal
Amitava Sanyal
These days anything goes in the name of Sufi music. A number of labels have made capital of this musical currency over the last decade. So much has been put out there in the market that it's become difficult to know what's Sufi and what's not. Amitava Sanyal writes.
Anirudh Bhattacharyya
Anirudh Bhattacharyya
This was a leader who surfed the wave of the sort of unadulterated adulation tweens reserve for beardless boy band members, to secure a historic mandate. Just a year after the result was announced, a major media outlet moaned that the “promise” of “shaking up the system” had gone AWOL. “That goodwill from the early days evaporated quickly,” it commented.
Ayesha Siddiqa
Ayesha Siddiqa
The new generation of Pakistani leaders must provide new slogans and effectiveness in service delivery to young voters instead of reminding them of old injustices. Ayesha Siddiqa writes.
Barkha Dutt
Barkha Dutt
These days the press is either coming under open attack from politicians or being ignored altogether. When any of these leaders do grant interviews or even meet informally with the media it is usually only with people they like or approve of or with those they think can impact their political standing, writes Barkha Dutt.
Chanakya
Chanakya
Kejriwal seems more preoccupied with establishing his supremacy, defending his erring ministers and lashing out at the Centre, the LG and the media for his own lapses.
Farrukh Dhondy
Farrukh Dhondy
The 2015 Cannes Film Festival began on May 13, and concluded on Sunday. At the same time the Jaipur Literary Festival came to London’s South Bank Centre, the artistic hub of Britain’s capital. One of the sessions at the JLF’s Brit debut was a discussion on Bollywood.
Gautam Chikermane
Gautam Chikermane
For an irrationally exuberant market yearning to look up, the politically-untenable legislative reforms proposals that climaxed after 40 months and changing partners may be good enough to deliver a 1,000-point Sensex return. Gautam Chikarmane writes.
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
The prime ministership of India has to be the world’s toughest assignment. But it is also perhaps the world’s most powerful one. Not because his fingers can touch nuclear buttons or launch craft to the moon and Mars but because they can touch and transform the lives of our benighted millions, writes Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Harsh Mander
Harsh Mander
In newly independent India, there was a resolve to acknowledge and reverse the country’s history of entrenched inequalities, and to build on its strength of effortless diversity. But this resolve has weakened greatly in recent decades. As India made a new tryst with the market, the number of people relegated to the margins of our society has also grown dramatically, writes Harsh Mander.
Indrajit Hazra
Indrajit Hazra
This is the last Red Herring that will appear in this paper. Like all bad things (and, come to think of it, good things too), this column also had to come to an end, writes Indrajit Hazra.
Inner Voice
Inner Voice
We all reach a stage in life when we need help, love and kindness. Our parents, all their lives, have helped us, kissed our bruises, wiped our tears and made us what we are today.
Karan Thapar
Karan Thapar
What Mr Modi should never forget is that, outside of his opponents in politics, even his critics want him to succeed for the simple reason he’s the only Prime Minister we have and India can’t afford to stumble or lag behind, writes Karan Thapar.
Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu
Taking over as chief economic adviser to the Government of India has meant adapting to changes — some obvious and some more subtle, writes Kaushik Basu.
Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh
A frequent and welcome visitor is my very old friend, Nanak Kohli, often accompanied by Planning Commission member Syeda Hamid, whom I have also known and admired for many years. She and I share a great love for Urdu poetry, which somehow seems to go well with a large peg of single malt.
Manas Chakravarty
Manas Chakravarty
We’re very happy young Namo is adjusting well to his new school. He has worked hard throughout the year. A detailed assessment follows:
Manu Joseph
Manu Joseph
There is now a better understanding of how the Chinese achieved one of the most mysterious triumphs in disaster foretelling
N Madhavan
N Madhavan
Satya Nadella seems set for his next big purchase -- and Microsoft has about $95 billion in cash. That is about Rs 600,000 crore! Reports came at the weekend that the software giant pulled back from acquiring Salesforce.com, arguably the biggest small-business software company located in the cloud (or the internet).
Namita Bhandare
Namita Bhandare
The sari will endure because when we Indian women want to dress up, when we attend weddings or festivals, when we want to feel special, the inevitable garment of choice is the sari. We are not the generation of our grandmothers and mothers who wore only saris (yes, even on the beach, alas), but our love and nostalgia for the draped fabric has seeped into our DNA from that lineage.
Pankaj Vohra
Pankaj Vohra
Having lost power in Delhi and Rajasthan in the recently concluded assembly polls and having failed to topple the BJP governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the Congress is apparently headed for its lowest tally in the Lok Sabha polls in 2014.
Pradeep Magazine
Pradeep Magazine
Before I come to the point, a bit of a preamble is required. Even at the best of times, the relationship between those who perform and those who write and pass judgments on them is tenuous. And at the worst of times, it is tense and edgy. Over the years, both have generally learnt to live with each other and not cross the line between being downright rude and extra respectful, writes Pradeep Magazine.
Pratik Kanjilal
Pratik Kanjilal
Enforcement of standards and informed consumer choice work better than bans. Pratik Kanjilal writes.
Rajdeep Sardesai
Rajdeep Sardesai
In an age where a film is declared a hit or a flop on the first weekend’s performance, politicians too are finding their ratings being judged in a compressed timeframe. Narendra Modi was elected prime minister for five years, but he has already had to go through a series of early tests: 100 days, 200 and then 300 days, now his impending first year anniversary have all become occasions for the media to rate his performance. It is almost as if he is facing a constant agni-pariksha.
Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha
It may be that in India, civilian control of the military has sometimes gone too far. As Wilkinson himself notes, the indifference to the technological requirements of the army shown by Nehru and his defence minister VK Krishna Menon led to the fiasco of the China war, writes Ramachandra Guha.
RK Pachauri
RK Pachauri
Rising sea levels pose a significant risk to India’s economic growth given our extensive coastline, writes RK Pachauri.
Samar Halarnkar
Samar Halarnkar
An indiscriminate crackdown on NGOs will affect those on India’s margins like children, the poor and disabled
Sanchita Sharma
Sanchita Sharma
Sweating leads to excessive loss of salt and minerals, causing the body to dehydrate severely and causing problems.
Sanjoy Narayan
Sanjoy Narayan
The potential is huge for setting up household solar power systems on rooftops, terraces and balconies in Indian cities and towns where sunlight is in abundance most of the year. And while it is true that the cost of setting up photovoltaic solar panels is not cheap, technology and innovation are constantly pushing those costs down.
Shivani Singh
Shivani Singh
Since May 11 when the video clip of a traffic constable hurling a brick at a woman went viral, there have been at least half a dozen cases of policemen getting assaulted by citizens.
Sitaram Yechury
Sitaram Yechury
The results of the 15th general elections were declared on May 16, 2014, and the Narendra Modi-led government was sworn in on May 24. Technically, therefore, the first year of the Modi government will end in a few days.
Smruti Koppikar
Smruti Koppikar
Hospitals, both public and private, are among the workplaces with higher incidences of sexual harassment.
Soumya Bhattacharya
Soumya Bhattacharya
The intensity of Kolkata's relationship with Ganguly, its penchant for cosmic, comic hyperbole when it comes to the player, is unique. Soumya Bhattacharya writes.
Sujata Anandan
Sujata Anandan
I truly run out of words - except to appeal to Lords Rama and Krishna to give us better netas with more intelligent repartee than we have had in years.
Tithiya Sharma
Tithiya Sharma
Even as we bask in the success of one man's fast unto death to rid our country of corruption, and we take to the streets in solidarity, there are few among us who have been waging a silent war against corrupt officials and a crumbling system without so much as a pat on the back. Tithiya Sharma writes.
Vantage Point
Vantage Point
Finance minister Arun Jaitley is set to present his first full budget under the Narendra Modi government later this week. As usual, the market is abuzz with expectations from the various sections of the budget as well as likely announcements.
Vantage Point
Vir Sanghvi
Vir Sanghvi
Why hide the papers? Why keep the conspiracy theories related to Netaji Subhas Bose’s death alive? And why deny India the truth about the death of one of its great freedom fighters?

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