As several predicted, the heat of the Mumbai attacks have visibly faded and people have started discussing about India-Eng test series and Ghajini. Nothing wrong, as life has to move on.
The Media during the aftermath of the Mumbai carnage was literally filled with candle light processions...
Defeat of Hamas would be no victory
Daniel Barenboim
If Hamas is destroyed, a more radical group will replace it. Israel’s security depends on wiser action.
I have just three wishes for the coming year. The first is for the Israeli government to realise once and for all that...
Pakistan’s plight and what needs to be done
Ramaswamy R. Iyer
It is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the democratic experiment in Pakistan has failed but is there not a grain of truth in that statement? In this difficult situation, democratic India, specifically the media, civil...
Statesmanship, the need of the hour
V.R. Krishna Iyer
Let India be firm and fair but never surrender to military mania, whatever the provocation from across the border.
No patriotic Indian or sensitive world citizen can be indifferent to the tragic deterioration of Indo-Pakistan...
China 'is fuelling war in Darfur'
By Hilary Andersson BBC News, Darfur
The BBC has found the first evidence that China is currently helping Sudan's government militarily in Darfur.
The Panorama TV programme tracked down Chinese army lorries in the Sudanese province that came from a...