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Anti-Moody stance is essentially jingoism
You can expect, and even excuse, the country's ignorant politicians for making statements attacking the global credit rating agency Moody's Investor Services for threatening to downgrade India's credit rating. What is really alarming, however, is that a large number of academics and journalists, not normally known for being jingoistic, have decided to join hands with the political class -- indeed, they've been a lot more voluble.
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Love in the time of want
Her life is indeed stranger than fiction. Sadhanatai Amte, wife, confidante and companion of Baba Amte, is a frail, unassuming woman. But when she says that she has lived many lives in her lifetime, you realise her resilience. It is little wonder then that the formidable Baba Amte fell in love with her some 52 years ago, despite his vow of celibacy.
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Back to the pavillion
One of Pakistan's most exciting cricket team captains and arguably one of the most talented cricketers of his generation, Wasim Akram, sat in the sidelines as the national team played in Bangladesh. Ostensibly, Akram is not available for the three-nation event because his bowling shoulder flared up.
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Tears for the onion
There's something truly disquieting and peculiarly apt about the twin tragedies unfolding before our very eyes: the declining rupee and the disappearing onion. These, after all, are two institutions that have bound this nation together, its towns and its villages, it rich and its poor, its heart and its stomach.
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For electronic toy makers, innovation brings success
Toys have always enchanted children. And electronic toys, be it roaring guns or musical key chains, remain a hot favourite. With increasing disposable income and resulting consumerism, demand for such toys is on the rise. But stiff competition, both on the domestic turf and from China, has left the Indian electronic toy manufacturers struggling for survival.
Inside Track
It is not Sonia Gandhi who may be responsible for pipping the BJP at the post, but the in-fighting within the party as well. At 72, this is probably Atal Behari Vajpayee's last chance to become Prime Minister and he is aware that the way to victory is to tone down the hardliners' shrill public speak. The only man who can do this, however, is L.K. Advani.
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