Taliban capturing Swat. ‘Special Pakistani Forces’ of trained jihadis penetrating the LoC in Kashmir. America playing a double game. Is the Indian government at all serious about this apocalyptic threat?
Sanjay Kapoor Hague / Delhi
Three fringe communities in Mumbai remain excluded from the voters’ list. They cannot participate in the elections of the world’s largest democracy
Gajanan Khergamker Mumbai
Although G20 leaders reached a consensus on the global stimulus package, it has received a mixed response. Many believe that it has refused to address the abject failure of neo-liberal capitalism
Sophia Furber London
Rumours about Taliban coming to India may not be all that innocuous. It could be part of a design by Pakistan-based outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba to trigger fear psychosis in India
Rakhi Chakrabarty Delhi
The Taliban's continuous reneging from agreements made with the government may yet turn the tide against them and enable the military to move decisively against them, which it has so far been unable or unwilling to do.
Beena Sarwar Karachi
Swiss banks are destabilising democracies by providing safe havens to big-moneyed tax evaders in poor countries that are forced to raise taxes to fund their development
Sanjay Kapoor Berne (Switzerland)
Hardnews investigations reveal that most foreign bank accounts are of Indian companies and politicians. Will Advani have the courage to do an Obama on these banks?
Sanjay Kapoor Berne (Switzerland) / Delhi
Chandrababu Naidu turned out to be the proverbial Trojan horse for NTR. Today he is selling the NTR myth yet again to capture power
Srinivas Parsa Hyderabad
The radical mandate of the massive pro-democracy people's movement and elections is rapidly getting lost as Maoists, other politicians parties and the army slug it out Nepal
Prashant Jha Kathmandu
There is excitement on a new-found prosperity in rural areas. Screaming headlines tell us of farmers finding new ways to prosperity. Is that the ground reality?
Devinder Sharma Delhi
The electorate is fed up with caste politics played by most parties as well as their culture of corruption and patronage to criminals
Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow
