How do you compliment some one you distrust without seeming to drop your guard? That may not be the perfect analogy but it pretty much approximates the position India finds itself in after Pakis...
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I wish I hadn’t agreed to do “something” with her book and, more than that, I wish I hadn’t got carried away and reminded Madhu Trehan. I thought it would be explosive. U...
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The truth is I was anyway going to write about my interview with the NSA this week. There are several things he’s said that are worth reflecting upon. Beyond that, he’s also illustra...
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“What on earth is going on?” Pertie sounded intrigued but I could tell he was also exasperated. It was past midnight and there was an edge to his voice. “Have we all gone mad?&...
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Let me begin with an admission. On tuesday night I became a convert. To put it simplistically, Barack Obama has one more fan. I must be number 3 billion, 451 million, 346 hundred thousand and wh...
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I wonder how history will remember George Bush? If it’s kind it might find a little place for the things he said. I know of no other head of government who spoke to such perplexing effect. ...
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The story of Dr. Binayak Sen makes ironic reading at a time when we want to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai strike to “Indian justice”. It questions the phrase I have deliberatel...
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Ingrid Betancur said something on the BBC the other day that made me stop and think. “When it comes to God, it’s the questions you ask that really matter.” As I heard her I instinctively knew...
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I doubt if 2008 could have been worse than it was. But now the most important question I can think of is can we be sure the new year will be better? I doubt if anyone knows. More significantly, ...
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The insistent ringing of the phone suggested it could be Pertie. Since his return last month he’s been unusually angry. I took this to be the helpless rage many of us have felt after Bomba...
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