Day's debate
Discussions on our key concerns
Like much of the rest of the world, India has chosen the industrialisation path to progress, at the cost of agriculture. This trend has only accentuated since 1991, when Manohan Singh became the finan...more
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the Supreme Court should not step into the realm of policy formulation. He said this in a meeting with sel...more
Telecom secretary PJ Thomas is set to take charge as the chief vigilance commissioner (CVC) from tomorrow, notwithstanding a note of dissent from...more
Few images can possibly be as surreal as that of Sonia Gandhi filing a nomination paper for her re-election as Congress party president. "Wh...more
Switzerland has signed an agreement with India that will allow Indian agencies to access details of Indian money stashed abroad. This is part of ...more
The prime minister came, the prime minister saw, the prime minister conquered his urge to stay clear of the disaster that has been the preparatio...more
Our parliamentarians are overworked and underpaid, so grossly underpaid that (in the words of Congress MP Rajiv Shukla) they get less than a cler...more
Prime minister Manmohan Singh can be faulted for many things but not when it comes to dignity. And that is one value he spoke of in his Independe...more
For the Congress, the dead certainly seem to be expendable, at least in zealously safeguarding the image of another. In this case, former prime m...more
For Indians still young enough to believe that the parliament is bound by the constitution to hold the government responsible for its sins of com...more
In the matter of P D Dinakaran vs Sikkim (strictly an opinion-trial and not a legal one), one could say that it is the government and governance ...more
