Bastion of Free Speech


March 1-7, 2002


Contents


Hope at a time of hopelessness
Ambani merger softens Ahmedabad

GOP and Teamsters
A Match Made in ANWR

Memo to Washington
We can handle the truth

The House that Kao Built
Mohan Guruswamy on RAW's first chief

America's Other War Heats Up
Arianna Huffington

Was it worth it?
Mohan Guruswamy on Colin Powell's Delhi tour

Oh What a Lovely War
Mohan Guruwamy on the hysteria

2001: A Watershed Year For Political Leadership
Arianna Huffington searches in vain

Please Go, Mr. Advani
Sardar 'Clay Feet' Patel

The Citizen Vanishes
Life a year into the millennium

Gluttony as Usual
A silly season belying the spirit of Ramadan

India's Wealth Creators
A disappointing bunch, says M K Venu.

On Flying High And Lowered Expectations
Bush or Push? Arianna Huffington on the willingly shilling president.

Enron Switched Off
Mohan Guruswamy examines the Indian fallout

Day of Infamy
Ashcroft in Blunderland

Still the Great Game
Afghanistan's PetroPolitics

The House that Jinnah Built
Jinnah's Vision and Pakistan's Reality

Afghanistan
Interesting Times

A Stroke of Good Fortune
Remembering Jawaharlal Nehru on his 112th birth anniversary

Civilians and Combatants
The innocence about innocents

Where Is The Outrage?
Chandy exposes the vicious game of Blame the Victim

Book Review: In the Service of the Nation by Gen. KV Krishna Rao
Interesting, but not Telling, concludes Mohan Guruswamy

Wanted - Dead or Alive An Orator
A polity with speeches aplenty, but no oratory

Postcards to the President
Imaginary letters to President Bush from all across the world

How good is our Liberalization?
Rip Van Sinha wakes up - 10 years after Narasimha Rao

Open your wallets, not your mouths
The defining down of a great nation

Pride and Prejudice
Hypocrisy in criticizing Middle America for its post September 11 fears

Some Good Nonsense
Joshi in Wonderland

The Trouble with Infallibility
The Islamic world ducks criticism instead of meeting it head on

East Side Story
Streetwalkers in the new century

Yellow Fever in Afghanistan
Sensationalism as a cure to ennui

Sen. Jeffords Hits the Brakes
One man with some conscience

V-J Day in Madras
The tragedy of Tamilnadu