Some members of the Rajya Sabha tore papers on the chairman's desk Monday while protesting the women's reservation bill. Tuesday the house took action against them by suspending them for the rest of the budget session.
Parliamentary procedures and etiquettes are carefully crafted to permit ...
The man who seemed incapable of raising his voice has changed. The soft-spoken Manmohan Singh is no longer as mild-mannered as before. Behind the amiable exterior, a hint of steel is now visible, as the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) leader L.K. Advani learnt to his cost in the Lok Sa...
It is time to pick up the pieces of Indian hockey even as coach Jose Brasa is humming John Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" melody. One suspects that the Spaniard believes that he could be the first before the firing squad, post the Hockey World Cup.
His reported statement "my ...
That sinking feeling is all too familiar and it speaks for the depths Indian hockey has descended to over the past two decades. Now that India is all but out of contention for the semi-final at the ongoing Hockey World Cup, perhaps the hosts would be better off introspecting.
Mathematically, India&...
In 1976 Richard Dawkins (now well-known for his several other books, including ‘God Delusion’) wrote a book that has since become a landmark for what it proposed and also for its title, “The Selfish Gene”. When I first read the book – and marked it all over with a red p...
