Solving crime not in our DNA

Among the WikiLeaks is a US embassy diplomatic cable decrying India?s weak forensics and its accompanying reliance on confessions?often obtained…

No climate for change

Indian fans have been celebrating how Jairam Ramesh?s proposals for International Consultation and Analysis for enhancing reporting for non-Annex 1…

Bush-baiters, be nice

This is a book without endnotes. It?s got a few footnotes. About a quarter of the way through, there?s one…

Hocus Pocus, Boo!

In India, the Ayodhya judgement has reinvigorated a debate over whether historical scars are atrophying the present. There are those…

His pen is still sexy

He begins every morning with a regimented cycle of liquids. A glass of fresh orange juice to start with, followed…

Bid, build, make waves

It?s chaos. Preparations are distressingly short of desired goals. Even the main stadia are far from being completed…

DNA of the future

In June 2000, then-US President Bill Clinton strode to a lectern in the East Room of the White House and…

Deep waters still beckon

Before its state-owned operator Petrobras struck big oilfields deep below the Atlantic floor in 2007, Brazil used to be chronically…