Category: Politics and Governance in India

Links and extracts for weekend reading

Irfan Husain on how the intelligentsia in Pakistan�is blissfully unaware (or indifferent) to the threat from Taliban Saurav Basu on Amir Khusro and the myth of composite culture and Kapil Sibal on�how the ‘NDA...

India-Pakistan energy collaboration…really?

Continuing from Part I of this guest post by Ashutosh on India, Pakistan and geo-strategic issues… A few days later (after the Tehelka Summit), I attended the book launch of the second edition of ...

N-deal: Anti-Islamic and now Anti-Sikh?

If you thought that the N-deal had nothing to do with religion, think again… After being labelled as anti-Islamic, the N-deal has now ruffled the feathers of Sikhs (or to be more precise, a...

An 1100 years-old Constitution

Great piece of reporting from The Hindu on an extraordinary archeological find from Tamil Nadu about politics and governance in ancient India. *** Excerpts *** It may be hard to believe that nearly 1,100...

Looks like someone is gunning for Behenji

I do not hold any brief for Mayawati-ji (although I admire her guts) but this does not smell right: The CBI is all set to chargesheet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in the disproportionate...