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Cricket and credibility

It is time to turn the Indian Premier League into pure Bollywood, writes Nirmal Shekar

Schooled in sanctimony

The cartoon ban will ensure a return to the lifeless textbooks of yesteryear, taking away the very tools that have enabled Dalit assertion today

From Russia, no love

By not going to the G8 summit, Vladimir Putin sends a message to his western critics

Facing up to rape

This we know: few days go by without newspaper headlines announcing a violent sexual assault on a woman who could have been us or a loved one. This is less well known: the victims we read about ar...

The Greeks say no

Angry Greek voters punished both their main political parties in the general election on May 6, but all subsequent attempts to form a government have failed, and another election is to be held on J...

Balance-sheet

The editorial “The first year's balance-sheet” (May 17) deserves praise for giving due credit to the Tamil Nadu government and pointing out the need for change in some areas. But it has not said a...

Spot fixing

Just when cricket was attaining a semblance of stability and raising a toast to IPL, another “fixing storm” has upset the apple cart. The sting operation responsible for bringing to light the alle...

Role of cartoons

Suhas Palshikar's article “Save the classroom from the political class” (May 16) was thought-provoking. Cartoons are okay as long as they generate discussions and uphold decency and decorum, and a...

China Daily, now out of Africa

The state-owned English language newspaper that claims an independent editorial policy wants ‘to introduce China to the world'

Laughing matter

Going by the ruckus surrounding cartoons these days — by the angry and frequently violent reactions of elected lawmakers against any kind of caricature of prominent personalities — it seems “laugh...

No alternative to bold steps

In Bangladesh-India relations, there is a need to translate positive political will into reality in a way that will leave neither side feeling short-changed

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