GALLERY
Lord Ganpati comes visiting
Readers send photographs of their favourite Ganpatis this year.
Amazing Ganeshas
Many more Ganapatis from Central Mumbai.
The Ganeshas of Mumbai
For ten days during the Ganesh festival, Mumbai is transformed. At almost every locality in Mumbai.
SPECIALS
The Indian-American population boom
The Indian community in the US added more than 640,000 (6.4 lakh) to its number in the last five years.
Ayyappa Paniker: the guru of modern poets
He took Malayalam poetry beyond the oceans and introduced to Kerala readers poetic geniuses from as far away as Cuba, Senegal and Mexico.
S S Menon will bring China focus in foreign policy
The PM has sent out the message that he is bringing a man on his core team who can put India-China relations on a stable course.
COLUMNS
T V R Shenoy: Only the gods can save India
Tomorrow's leaders shall arise from the student unions of today. Can you, honestly, contemplate this future without shuddering?
TP Sreenivasan: In Shiv Shankar Menon, the best person has won
Whenever a tough diplomatic job had to be done, the government turned to Shankar. And, like his uncle and grandfather before him, he will bring laurels to India.
Wilson John: Why Musharraf had Bugti killed
Dissension within and without the ranks, growing US apathy, and economics forced Musharraf to take on the Balochs.
Rajat Narang: Time to make India a no reservation country
'We should remove the Q-word from the Constitution of India.'
Col (retd) Anil Athale: Is Balochistan another Bangladesh?
The most likely scenario is that guerrilla war will continue in Balochistan and Balochis in other parts of Pakistan will carry out a campaign of sabotage. The Pakistani state will continue to limp along. Balochistan is not Bangladesh.
Alok Bansal: Balochistan after Bugti
By killing Bugti, General Musharraf has now permanently alienated a significant section of Baloch population.
B Raman: India must stand by the Balochs
The names of Nawab Bugti and other Baloch martyrs will remain enshrined in letters of gold in the history of independent Balochistan, when it becomes a reality, as it will.
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: An inversion of roles in Parliament
Thanks to regional parties, it is the Lok Sabha that now represents states' interests.
Aditi Phadnis: Bhairon Singh Shekhawat: The next President?
Shekhawat has decided to throw his hat in the Presidential ring. Has he got the numbers?
Image: Ganapati in Ganesh Galli, Lalbaug in central Mumbai.
Photograph: Satish Bodas
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