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Is everyone really Charlie?

Is everyone really Charlie?

London: Je suis Charlie indeed. This is the problem with placards — there is rarely enough room to fit in the...

16 Jan 2015 9:30 AM IST

Ocean of opportunity

Ocean of opportunity

While covering the recent tragic terror attacks in Peshawar, Sydney, Paris, the ISIS war in Iraq as well as the...

16 Jan 2015 8:49 AM IST

What can I say?

What can I say?

Shouldn’t free speech and individual human liberties be our highest value?

14 Jan 2015 8:31 AM IST

A promise of change

A promise of change

Fact that Sinhalese vote was disinterested in Rajapaksa’s social polarisation has created space for Sirisena, to...

13 Jan 2015 1:05 PM IST

Soviet-Jihad connection

Soviet-Jihad connection

While calling the killings at the Paris-based magazine Charlie Hebdo “horrible and condemnable”, Congress MP...

11 Jan 2015 12:44 PM IST

A troubled tryst with free speech

A troubled tryst with free speech

My old boss had only one commandment in journalism so far as I remember. This was (and I am paraphrasing him): write...

11 Jan 2015 12:40 PM IST

Cabbages & Kings: Price of free speech

Cabbages & Kings: Price of free speech

“You thought you saw a hole in the moon,It was a speck of dust on your telescope lens!There aren’t seven...

10 Jan 2015 6:51 AM IST

Talking Turkey: Time for a rethink?

Talking Turkey: Time for a rethink?

What happened at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was condemnable without reserve and the world’s...

10 Jan 2015 6:47 AM IST

BJP vs Parivar

Over the past fortnight, the Narendra Modi government has attempted to send out strong and unmistakable signals to...

9 Jan 2015 12:14 PM IST

View from Pakistan: Half-measures can’t end extremism

View from Pakistan: Half-measures can’t end extremism

In the stunned aftermath of the brazen killing there were more shocks

8 Jan 2015 12:27 PM IST

Genetically modified crops: Corporate fiction

Genetically modified crops: Corporate fiction

A seed is an autopoietic system — constantly self-organising, evolving and adapting to changing contexts

6 Jan 2015 11:48 AM IST

Fighting a losing battle

Fighting a losing battle

This is the time of the year when anxious parents begin running about to ensure that their kids get admission to a good...

5 Jan 2015 12:08 PM IST