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  • Aamir Khan

    Aamir Khan

    I believe in India. I believe in the people of India. I believe that each and every Indian loves his/her country. I believe that India is changing. I believe that India wants to change. Aamir Khan writes for HT.

  • Abhijit Banerjee

    Abhijit Banerjee

    It is difficult to sell insurance to the poor in India. The challenges are not insurmountable but demand imaginative solutions

  • Amish

    Amish

    The makers of PK must realise that people are willing to worship anything because it might lead them to see the divine in everything, writes Amish.

  • Amitava Sanyal

    Amitava Sanyal

    These days anything goes in the name of Sufi music. A number of labels have made capital of this musical currency over the last decade. So much has been put out there in the market that it's become difficult to know what's Sufi and what's not. Amitava Sanyal writes.

  • Anirudh Bhattacharyya

    Anirudh Bhattacharyya

    There’s a new breed of royalty taking the reins in America. Whether you would describe it as winning the genetic lottery or suffering from a congenital condition is your choice, writes Anirudh Bhattacharyya.

  • Ayesha Siddiqa

    Ayesha Siddiqa

    The new generation of Pakistani leaders must provide new slogans and effectiveness in service delivery to young voters instead of reminding them of old injustices. Ayesha Siddiqa writes.

  • Barkha Dutt

    Barkha Dutt

    Lalitgate could well be all about cricket wars seeking to camouflage themselves behind the cover of political battle.

  • Chanakya

    Chanakya

    Here is a bit of unsolicited advice for our politicians. It comes from no one less than Abraham Lincoln, who said, “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

  • Farrukh Dhondy

    Farrukh Dhondy

    There you have it! An adaptation of the Shakespearean speech from Julius Caesar as perhaps Keith Vaz, Indian-born Leicester MP, would render it today to the Westminster parliament in answer to the controversy that surrounds his acts of patronage or, as he insists, of clear duty.

  • Gautam Chikermane

    Gautam Chikermane

    For an irrationally exuberant market yearning to look up, the politically-untenable legislative reforms proposals that climaxed after 40 months and changing partners may be good enough to deliver a 1,000-point Sensex return. Gautam Chikarmane writes.

  • Gopalkrishna Gandhi

    Gopalkrishna Gandhi

    The prime ministership of India has to be the world’s toughest assignment. But it is also perhaps the world’s most powerful one. Not because his fingers can touch nuclear buttons or launch craft to the moon and Mars but because they can touch and transform the lives of our benighted millions, writes Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

  • Harsh Mander

    Harsh Mander

    The proposed changes in the Juvenile Justice Act snatch from vulnerable people below 18 a chance to reform themselves

  • Indrajit Hazra

    Indrajit Hazra

    This is the last Red Herring that will appear in this paper. Like all bad things (and, come to think of it, good things too), this column also had to come to an end, writes Indrajit Hazra.

  • Inner Voice

    Inner Voice

    We all reach a stage in life when we need help, love and kindness. Our parents, all their lives, have helped us, kissed our bruises, wiped our tears and made us what we are today.

  • Karan Thapar

    Karan Thapar

    Has the Congress overplayed its hand against Vasundhara Raje whilst throwing away the trump it could have used against Sushma Swaraj? I’m tempted to say yes.

  • Kaushik Basu

    Kaushik Basu

    Taking over as chief economic adviser to the Government of India has meant adapting to changes — some obvious and some more subtle, writes Kaushik Basu.

  • Khushwant Singh

    Khushwant Singh

    A frequent and welcome visitor is my very old friend, Nanak Kohli, often accompanied by Planning Commission member Syeda Hamid, whom I have also known and admired for many years. She and I share a great love for Urdu poetry, which somehow seems to go well with a large peg of single malt.

  • Manas Chakravarty

    Manas Chakravarty

    The shenanigans around Lalit Modi seem to involve Vasundhara Raje helping him for being a close family friend and Sushma Swaraj assisting him on humanitarian grounds. There are good reasons for doing so, as these historical documents show.

  • Manu Joseph

    Manu Joseph

    The Magna Carta is a reminder of the difference between freedom and liberty. Animals are free, but in a system of humans, total freedom is anarchy.

  • N Madhavan

    N Madhavan

    Time and again I recall the garment industry to get a better perspective on India’s IT industry because there are tectonic shifts in the industry that makes some pessimists look askance at the future of the industry.

  • Namita Bhandare

    Namita Bhandare

    Few politicians in India have as canny an instinct for social media communication as Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In his general election campaign, he used it to his advantage, reaching out to a growing demographic of savvy users on Twitter, Facebook and Google hangouts.

  • Pankaj Vohra

    Pankaj Vohra

    Having lost power in Delhi and Rajasthan in the recently concluded assembly polls and having failed to topple the BJP governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the Congress is apparently headed for its lowest tally in the Lok Sabha polls in 2014.

  • Pradeep Magazine

    Pradeep Magazine

    The Supreme Court took note of the BCCI's functioning and is trying to correct the wrongs by having appointed a three-member committee under the former Chief Justice of India, Justice LM Lodha, to suggest ways and means to ensure offences are not repeated.

  • Pratik Kanjilal

    Pratik Kanjilal

    Enforcement of standards and informed consumer choice work better than bans. Pratik Kanjilal writes.

  • Rajdeep Sardesai

    Rajdeep Sardesai

    Senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai talks of his interview with former IPL chief Lalit Modi - of high-profile visitors, IPL franchise owners, business dealings, and powerful connections.

  • Ramachandra Guha

    Ramachandra Guha

    In my view, for a party’s success or failure, the nature of leadership is a key explanatory variable. It can be as important as organisational robustness or ideological coherence. And in the case of the Congress, it is quite clear that the quality of its top leadership has noticeably declined over the years.

  • RK Pachauri

    RK Pachauri

    Rising sea levels pose a significant risk to India’s economic growth given our extensive coastline, writes RK Pachauri.

  • Samar Halarnkar

    Samar Halarnkar

    It’s hard to oppose the yoga blitzkrieg, but we need to focus at least half as much attention on a quietly worsening national crisis

  • Sanchita Sharma

    Sanchita Sharma

    Skinny or voluminous, all of us have some amount of fat tucked away inside us, with the type, amount and distribution depending on our genes and lifestyle. Body fat is classified brown, white, subcutaneous and visceral. Some of it is healthy, most is not.

  • Sanjoy Narayan

    Sanjoy Narayan

    Besides causing TV news anchors to go apoplectic daily, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s studied silence on the charges of impropriety against his cabinet colleague external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, and party colleague Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje has given rise to several theories in Delhi’s circle of political pundits about what he may eventually do with regard to the two episodes — both involving a controversial former cricket tournament organiser, Lalit Modi.

  • Shivani Singh

    Shivani Singh

    Last week, the Delhi University’s cut-offs reached a bizarre high. The university had earlier announced that a student coming from a different stream would require 2.5% more than the eligibility percentage declared for a course. Add that to the 100% cut-off declared by some colleges and it becomes an impossible ask.

  • Sitaram Yechury

    Sitaram Yechury

    What we need today is not activities promoting the sectarian agenda, but concrete measures to remove the gross deprivation of our people

  • Smruti Koppikar

    Smruti Koppikar

    The annual Mumbai rant is back. Along with the monsoon, potholes on our roads are amidst us in plenty.

  • Soumya Bhattacharya

    Soumya Bhattacharya

    The intensity of Kolkata's relationship with Ganguly, its penchant for cosmic, comic hyperbole when it comes to the player, is unique. Soumya Bhattacharya writes.

  • Sujata Anandan

    Sujata Anandan

    I must confess that I’m disappointed. I am by no yardstick a fan of the BJP, but I was willing to set my cynicism aside when Narendra Modi stormed to power on the promise of rooting out corruption.

  • Tithiya Sharma

    Tithiya Sharma

    Even as we bask in the success of one man's fast unto death to rid our country of corruption, and we take to the streets in solidarity, there are few among us who have been waging a silent war against corrupt officials and a crumbling system without so much as a pat on the back. Tithiya Sharma writes.

  • Vantage Point

    Vantage Point

    Finance minister Arun Jaitley is set to present his first full budget under the Narendra Modi government later this week. As usual, the market is abuzz with expectations from the various sections of the budget as well as likely announcements.

  • Vir Sanghvi

    Vir Sanghvi

    The upshot of the Maggi controversy is that perhaps stars will now start worrying about the products they endorse