Complainant's rights...

Do the complainants of a case always get a fair trial...???

As customary as it is that the accused should get a fair trial, so should the complainants...

Feels, Rakesh Bhatnagar...

It is unfair to deny effective legal aid to victims of crime...

I don't remember...

Are you middle aged?

Are you forgetting thing very quickly...?

A new research shows that memory loss can begin as early as 45 years of age...!!!

Patralekha Chatterjee shows us the bright and darker sides of the fact...

It's the memory loss, stupid!!!

For all the cricket followers...

It may be the umpteenth time when the Indo-Aus series disaster has been discussed in the newspapers but it is still going strong among cricket followers...

Here is a different view...

Have our Indians really done enough for the adulation they receive...???

Deepak Lokhande questions it...

Find new love, our beloved game is dead...

Low inflation will drive bond rally...

Arjun Parthasarthy, an editor for the website www.investorsareidiots.com analyses the effects of the inflation results for Dec '11...

Low inflation will drive bond rally...

Yashwant Sinha says BJP is "70% pure", but still a party with a difference

Times View - Talk professionalism, not purity


Counterview - Power-seekers must be pragmatic


-The Times of India, January 17, 2012

Making a splash

All's well that doesn't end up in a backyard well


Making a splash

-The Times of India, January 17, 2012

Mamata Versus The Rest

Trinamool grapples with imagined adversaries instead of focussing on governing Bengal


Mamata Versus The Rest

-The Times of India, January 17, 2012

Sun, Sand, Sunburn

Even in Goa, girls don't just want to have fun


Sun, Sand, Sunburn

-The Times of India, January 17, 2012

Are We Game?

In safe-mode now, Indian cricket must get bolder - and younger


Are We Game?

-The Times of India, January 17, 2012

In the promiscuous world of international relations, elements of a strategic partnership

"Laying down what India should seek from its strategic partners may be useful in theory, but unrealistic in practice."

The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : In the promiscuous world of international relations, elements of a strategic partnership
Nations define their relations with other countries variously — partnership, alliance — but when two countries describe their relations as strategic, their ties are deemed to have risen to a new level. 

In the last decade, India has signed strategic partnership agreements with over a dozen countries. This is seen as a natural consequence of India's arrival on the global stage as a growing economic power; the acknowledgement of its democracy and its shared values with the democratic world.

Anniversary of shame

"The United States's infamous detention centre at Guantánamo Bay on the island of Cuba recently marked the 10 anniversary of its founding. In all, 779 people have been held, at one time or another, in the enclave and have been treated in ways no civilised society should tolerate."

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Anniversary of shame

According to U.S. official data, 92 per cent of the 779 had nothing to do with al-Qaida, and the majority have been released without charge or trial. But all have been tortured.

Guantánamo's 10 year is an anniversary of shame; moreover, even U.S. officials admit that the camp's very existence helps terrorist groups get new recruits.

Behind the cricket collapse

"It was not just that India was stripped of its crown in England; the abjectness of the performances in these seven Tests has made people wonder how on earth the honour was earned in the first place. That is an unfair view. "

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Behind the cricket collapse

The quality of pitches domestic cricket is played on has the most direct influence on bowlers and batsmen. The very structure of domestic cricket and the priorities in scheduling the three formats also need rethinking. In the short term, a transition needs planning.

It will be a test of the Board's intent and intelligence, and a portent of India's cricket future.

BCCI: Billionaires Control Cricket in India

"The ‘bring-us-their-heads' humiliation in store for the Fab Four only hijacks the debate from what IPL is doing to Indian cricket."

The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : BCCI: Billionaires Control Cricket in India

The same body, the BCCI, presides over both private (IPL) and national cricket. It enables huge moneys to be made by one and strangles the golden goose that is the other. The problem is not that our ‘boys' have been playing too much cricket. It's that they haven't been playing cricket. They've been playing IPL T20, where focus, concentration, technique and staying power count for little. And it's showing.

Will Barbie go bold and bald?

"A new campaign is taking off on Facebook asking toy-maker Mattel to create a bald Barbie."

The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Will Barbie go bold and bald?

The campaigners suggest a “Bald and Beautiful Barbie” will help young girls “who suffer from hair loss due to cancer treatments, alopecia or trichotillomania”. In keeping with Barbie's controversial history, some have disputed these campaigns, on the basis that even if you change the doll's hair, she still presents a terrible body image, the ultimate damaging western ideal.

Tackling health problems

"There we all were, naively thinking the Olympics would bring pride, excitement and tourism revenue to London this summer. But what none of us has properly accounted for are the health risks to visitors - stampedes, heatstroke and mass infections."

The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Tackling health problems