Power to forgive: Mandela's death and Babri anniversary

Power to forgive: Mandela's death and  Babri anniversary

In India by the time we woke up to news of Nelson Mandela's death it was already 6 December.  For us that day marks a different anniversary. 6 December 1992 was the day the Babri Masjid  came down and brought in its wake a communal horror which still haunts us. No truth.  No reconciliation. Just bitterness. Read more

From rugby to Valentine's Day: The Mandela you didn't know

You may know that he spent 27 years in prison, that he led South Africa out of apartheid and  that he served as his nation's first black president. But do you know about his Valentine musings? Read more

Photos: Across the world, people mourn the loss of Mandela

Across the world, people are mourning the loss of the great South-African leader Nelson Mandela.  Images from across the world. Read more

Music for Mandela: A video playlist of tributes to Madiba

He epitomised humanity in its most positive form, personifying values like equality and respect  for human rights in his youth, and the quality of forgiveness after his release from prison. Read more

Delhi elections: Why the experiment of AAP is an exciting one

The arrival of a third party breaks down the cosy arrangement of the privileged and calls for new,  difficult adjustments from all sides. Read more

How Modi has used the communal violence bill to his advantage

Modi also sweetly timed his letter to the Prime Minister and made its contents public a day after  exit polls predicted a wipe out for the Congress in four key north Indian states. Read more

How money printing has made the rich richer

The irony is that the American politicians helped by the Federal Reserve created a real estate  bubble to address income inequality. Once that bubble blew up, they started printing money.  And that in turn has led to more inequality. The solution has aggravated the problem. Read more

Why corporates are not gung ho about investing in India

One of the major factors that needs to be set right for this is to happen is the falling level of  corporate investment. Read more

R...Rajkumar review: Sonakshi, Shahid fail to save  the r...regressive film

Prabhu Deva is making films that will make feminists want to throttle him to death and  regular, sane, not-part-of-the-Khap people wonder why his films are so appallingly retro. Read more

India's batsmen fail South Africa's trial by pace

The BCCI might have won the boardroom battle but what good is it if India end up losing  on the field? Read more