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Twisted coffins
Precedents in history make undependable blueprints for the future.
F.S. Aijazuddin
Ballots & blood
India has suddenly found itself tarred.
$20bn glass slipper
The MBS visit euphoria needs to be put into perspective.
Political surrogacy
Drafters of the 18th Amendment thought they had a fool-proof method.
The accidental PM
The film provides a tempting analogy to our own political condition.
Heads or tails
Soon, it shall be another hot summer of discontent.
Weight of handcuffs
Have we really sunk to this depth of civic depravity?
Caveat, Caesar
Politicians in opposition are fearful at the cadavers of their past misdeeds being disinterred.
A second Nuremberg
Future generations will wonder why we condone brutality.
Alive and kicking
Our new government, like all its predecessors, wants a pliant media.
Our past and Pest
The paintings have been languishing in an airless chamber.
Handling black holes
The sins that politicians commit live long after them.
The mobile phoenix
How has China been able to transform itself?
Superpatriots
We are unicellular patriots, prone to ‘splittism’.
Poetic diplomacy
What would Vajpayee have made of our new leadership?
Inside the kitchen
Why are electoral costs expected to soar?
A fresh swarm?
This morning is the darkened dawn that Nawaz was not meant to see.
Shape of parliament
Is Western-style democracy a cold-climate plant, unable to withstand hotter climes?
Buried alive
‘Did our graves deserve such precipitate, speedy interest by officialdom?’
Copying neighbours
There’s no country that hasn’t tried to reform its civil service.