T V R Shenoy: Will we drop this obsession with the UN?
Spare me the talk of the 'prestige' of having our man as secretary general! How much prestige has Ghana accrued since Kofi Annan assumed the office?

Tarun Vijay: Trust your prime minister
Patriotism cannot be the property of the chosen few, an ideological opponent cannot be an enemy.

T P Sreenivasan: Tharoor bowed out with enhanced prestige for himself and India
With his added stature as the runner-up to the highest position in the United Nations, the sky is the limit for Tharoor, whether he stays in the UN or not.

M K Bhadrakumar: The lesson from New York
Delhi could have, and should have, come up with an alluring name that was more than a match for the presidents and prime ministers and princes and foreign ministers in the reckoning. In a country of a billion people, that shouldn't be difficult.

INTERVIEWS
'I haven't made a decision to quit the UN yet'
'It's clear under secretaries general serve at the pleasure of the secretary general. So we'll have to see.' Shashi Tharoor in his first interview since quitting the race.

'It can never happen that I could be handed over to India'
'Bush can climb over a tower and scream that Syed Salahuddin is a terrorist. But nobody will listen to him,' says the Hizbul Mujahideen leader.

SPECIALS
Indian authors booked at Frankfurt
India is the flavour of the season at the famed book fair.

Vizag to Hong Kong, a master's journey
Master Kamal has made Vizag proud, but more than that, he is shaping up to make India and its ancient yoga system well known in South East Asia.

Mumbai cops' ISI charge is a political googly
The fact that a few state assemblies face an election in 2007 including the politically sensitive Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat -- has added a complex dimension to the hotly debated issue of terrorism and Pakistan's alleged involvement in it.

IMAGES
Family has Nobel cause to celebrate
Roger Kornberg has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize.

'No clemency for Afzal'
Activists of the All India Anti-Terrorism Front hanged and burnt an effigy of Afzal.

Arundhati Roy makes a case for Afzal
Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy joined a sit-in, demanding mercy for Mohammad Afzal.

Ravana exiled
The festival celebrating the vanquishing of Evil at the hands of Good.

Image: A cycle-rickshaw puller carries his cargo past colourful effigies of the Hindu demon king Ravana, ahead of the festival of Dussehra in New Delhi on September 29.
Photograph: Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images

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