| Vol 9 Issue 11-12 September 03-16 |
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| The rise of Palin-tology in the age of Bush and McBush |
The Republicans are desperately donning an uncharacteristic anti-establishment stance while the Democrat candidate is trying to flex his muscles Republican style...
by Fazal M Kamal |
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| Daniel Radcliffe grows up, quite nicely |
Dressed in a leather jacket and hunched antisocially over his cellphone, Daniel Radcliffe could have been any other disaffected teenager adrift in gadget-world. But suddenly he looked up and leapt to his feet as if prodded by Emily Post herself.
by Sarah Lyall |
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| A Wednesday |
Gripping, terse and well-crafted, has a twist that throws you off kilter
by Namrata Joshi
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Aamir Basheer
Directed by Neeraj Pandey |
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| History Is One Blind Turn From Mohenjo Daro |
Glaring omissions, faulty maps, quirky highlighting and the airbrushing of Islam off early medieval India are some surprises in this much-touted book
by Irfan Habib
A HISTORY OF ANCIENT AND EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA: FROM THE STONE AGE TO THE 12TH CENTURY
by Upinder Singh |
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New turn or U-turn?
Whether it is making a New Turn or a U-Turn [PROBE Vol 7 Issue 12, September 12-18, 2008], the present caretaker government is sure making a mess out of things? They created so much of an opportunity on 1/11, that the people began to hope for a truly better future. But now they seem to be bungling along. We can only hope that it really is a new turn, not a U-Turn back to Square One.
Ahmed Rasheed
Maohammedpur, Dhaka
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| A Friendship of Convenience |
Pakistanis who tend to believe that Republicans are far better for Pakistan than Democrats should have read the signs, despite having borne the brunt of the Afghan war and its reciprocal fallout, once the ....
by IKRAM SEHGAL |
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| Hapless In The City |
A panel postulates new benchmarks for enumerating the poor
by Anuradha Raman |
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| Time to look forward |
It is time for politicians to put the country's interests first, before their own interests or that of their respective parties
by Ripan Kumar Biswas writes from New York |
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