| Unapologetically fastidious | | WE WOMEN are a weird, possessive lot. Many of us are possessive not just about our men, clothes and jewellery — in no particular order of importance — but also about the physical space that we permeate and perform our everyday antics in. | | Agent 000? | | AMERICA OWES Russia a big apology for the embarrassing case of bumbling CIA spy Ryan Fogel caught red-handed in Moscow trying to recruit a Russian agent. | | Eyes on the Arctic | | With global warming rapidly melting Arctic sea ice and glaciers making valuable stores of energy and minerals more accessible, voices of doom are warning of inevitable competition and potential conflict – a new “Great Game” among the five Arctic coastal nations. | | India’s agrarian crisis | | Farmers — once regarded as the heart and soul of India’s social and economic fabric — are a dwindling tribe today. According to a recent census by the Registrar General of India, the number of farmers in India has plummeted by nine million during the decade 2001-2011— the sharpest plunge ever — and hovers at 118.7 million today. | | Third time lucky | | Sharif has his task cut out. He deserves the benefit of the doubt | | Discriminating the rich! | | Should the State provide security to its rich citizens who are facing a threat perception? This raging debate has flared anew in the Indian public space following the government’s offer to provide top level security to billionaire Mukesh Ambani after a terror group threatened to blow up his one-billion dollar Mumbai home ‘Antilia’. | | China’s ignored ‘positives’ | | China is a sitting duck. Not that long ago, as far as most of the rest of the world was concerned, it was almost a closed, mysterious, society. | | The road to Syria | | The vicious Syrian civil war has put the world’s two biggest nuclear powers on a collision course over a small Levantine nation of no strategic interest to Washington. This cannot be allowed to go on. | |
