Rajdeep Sardesai

Something’s got to give
For those who had been affected by Partition, the love-hate relationship with the ‘other side’ was connected with their collective memories of childhood. Rajdeep Sardesai elaborates.

Pankaj Vohra

The battle for Delhi
For the BJP, which essentially has strong roots in Delhi since its Jana Sangh days, a defeat would lead to its diminishing influence in the national capital, writes Pankaj Vohra.

The visible hand
I  have little sympathy for the lament I hear from my leisure-class friends in Delhi about how life is hard in the age of inflation, writes Kaushik Basu.

    Karan Thapar

    It's time to say sorry
    Whilst elsewhere in India elections provided a safety valve to ventilate anger, in Kashmir they became a means of denying freedom and subjecting the people to unrepresentative rule, writes Karan Thapar.

    Vir Sanghvi

    Deal or No Deal?
    For Dr Manmohan Singh, the deal is not about America or about military might. It is about energy for India's development needs, writes Vir Sanghvi.

    Barkha Dutt

    Not caste in stone
    Indians seem to react to Mayawati in only two kinds of ways: either with odious prejudice or with irrational reverence, writes Barkha Dutt.
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    First day, first lines
    Soumya Bhattacharya digs out an eclectic collection of opening lines. Read them – and read into them – as you will..
    Public campaign to galvanise youth to vote
    Bouyed by public outrage after 26/11, an imaginative public campaign to galvanise the youth to register as voters — as the first step to cleansing the country’s political system — has notched up a target of two lakh people, three months into its launch. And one in every four is from Mumbai. Chitrangada Choudhury reports.

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