Friday 24 Dec '10WikiLeaks was supposed to change the world. The pundits said that diplomacy and the media would never be the same again, and knee-jerk anti-Americans hoped that the superpower would be humbled.
Saturday 15 May '10Much of the comment on Greece’s problems has focused on debt and spending. It is true that Greece’s use of short-term borrowing to support a bloated civil service, overgenerous pensions and reckless infrastructure expenditure has been the most immediate cause of it’s problems.
Thursday 04 Feb '10The Shiv Sena’s latest attempt to stir up sentiment in favour of ‘Mumbai for Marathis’ has stirred up many predictable reactions as well as a few surprises.
Saturday 14 Nov '09The BJP has spent the past year lurching from crisis to crisis. What has really been at issue is a stark political choice: whether the BJP is content to remain the party of the Hindu right that a section of its supporters would like it to be....